Leonard Zwelling

Dr. Zwelling is a board-certified internist and medical oncologist. He was trained at Duke University, Duke Medical School and Duke Hospital after which he completed his oncology training at the National Cancer Institute. He started his research career at NCI and in 1984 moved to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center where he rose to the rank of Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology. He returned to business school at the University of Houston, graduating in 1993. He then gravitated to research administration.

A Reminder of Why I Love Houston AND What Has Been Lost

A Reminder of Why I Love Houston AND What Has Been Lost By Leonard Zwelling          It’s snowing. Need I say more?          I am writing from the United Lounge in Reagan National Airport across the Potomac from Washington, DC on Sunday, January 17. We are waiting for the small plane to Houston and watching

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Skin In The Game

Skin In The Game By Leonard Zwelling          In a critically important article in the NY Times on Sunday, January 10 called “Defying the Medical Machine,” Noam Schreiber describes efforts by a group of hospitalists in Oregon to organize in a union, not to protect their incomes, but to protect their patients. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/business/doctors-unionize-to-resist-the-medical-machine.html          Hospital

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The Truth About American Health Insurance: Not a Pretty Picture

The Truth About American Health Insurance: Not a Pretty Picture By Leonard Zwelling          The Obama Administration is proud of passing health care legislation in 2010, the famous Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare. I am not at all sure it should be because it is not at all clear that the ACA really makes health

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