I Told You So By Leonard Zwelling Headlines in the Chronicle Saturday morning, starring our own Louise Strong, note the findings of a new Hopkins study in the January 7, 2015 issue of Science that draws a conclusion that I had made myself 40 years ago. For the most part, getting cancer is just …
Disquiet-2015 By Leonard Zwelling This will not be a New Year’s diatribe about all that is wrong with the world. No one near a television or computer screen needs any reminding of the tenuous state of human affairs in so many places on this Earth nor the fact that despite greed, racism, incessant war, …
As some of you know. I have been hospitalized for the past three weeks, so I am a little delayed in posting. Should be OK, now. LZ Gratitude-2014 By Leonard Zwelling (for Dr. Frank Allen) One of my most important spiritual teachers gifted me the concept that the only rational response to life was gratitude. I …
A Great Christmas Gift: How to Add 20 Yards to Your Drive By Leonard Zwelling (For Dr. Martin Raber) Golf is a four-letter word. And for good reason. As the late, great Robin Williams describes it’s a truly “f..cked up” game where you try to poke a ball into a gopher hole 18 friggin’ …
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Feckless By Leonard Zwelling First, a small apology. Some of you know that I have been an in-patient at Hermann after some pretty major surgery on December 9 and am just crawling back to the keyboard. Second, I have been wanting to write this one for a long, long time and I believe …
EMRs May Be An Answer: What Was the Question? By Leonard Zwelling The term EMR may be rather new. I hadn’t heard it a lot until I got to DC. The electronic medical record was one of the many “innovations” being hawked by the Democrats on Capitol Hill and particularly within the Executive Branch …
In the Race for an Elusive Metric of Medical Quality, Are High Hospital Readmission Rates Really Valid Reflections of Poor Quality? By Leonard Zwelling By now, we all know the mantra. Health care reform means lowering costs, improving access and improving quality. This should not be mistaken for what the ACA is. It is …
Torture By Leonard Zwelling There really wasn’t a whole lot new in the Senate report on enhanced interrogation techniques used by the US CIA against our enemies in a non-declared war in Afghanistan and other sites. Many people behaved badly and though there is some debate about whether these inhuman methods unearthed any actionable …
On the Wrong Side of the Scalpel: The Doctor as Patient By Leonard Zwelling Many books and articles have been written by doctors who get sick. They each describe the experience of illness from the other side of the stethoscope. Being on the other side of the scalpel is a bit worse. It really …
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Bonnie, Bette, Cyndi, Rosanne, and Me: My Intimate Relationships With Four Pop Music Goddesses By Leonard Zwelling Those who know me well know a few invariables about me. I love my wife, would never dream of having a close relationship with another woman, and haven’t since I met her, even in the lonely days …
