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.

Why I Am So Damned Angry-It’s the Economy, Stupid-Part 1

Why I Am So Damned Angry-It’s the Economy, Stupid-Part 1 By Leonard Zwelling          Anyone reading this blog over the last few years would suppose that my disdain for the current leadership of my former employer derives from those individuals’ insensitivity to the needs of my former colleagues and that leadership’s inept way with the […]

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The Dumbest Article I Ever Read in the Wall Street Journal

The Dumbest Article I Ever Read in the Wall Street Journal By Leonard Zwelling http://www.wsj.com/articles/eric-metaxas-science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god-1419544568          On Christmas Day, just after Santa tiptoed past my room at Memorial-Hermann, I read what may be the dumbest article I have ever read (link attached). It is not dumb, as in stupid, for it is really quite learned.

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FECKLESS

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

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In the Race for an Elusive Metric of Medical Quality, Are High Hospital Readmission Rates Really Valid Reflections of Poor Quality?

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

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TORTURE

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

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