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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.

Yale, Moral Relativism and the Highly Variable Cost of Bad Behavior in Academic Medicine

Yale, Moral Relativism and the Highly Variable Cost of Bad Behavior in Academic Medicine By Leonard Zwelling Have you been following this story in academia?          http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/us/yale-medical-school-sexual-harassment.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A5%22%7D          The NY Times has been on this one for a while, but I have not seen it elsewhere.          To make a long story short, the married

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It’s Not Just Law, It’s Law AND Order; It’s Not Just Crime, It’s Crime AND Punishment

It’s Not Just Law, It’s Law AND Order; It’s Not Just Crime, It’s Crime AND Punishment By Leonard Zwelling http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/08/justice/pennsylvania-doctor-cyanide-poisoning/index.html?hpt=hp_t2          Just in case you were thinking that MD Anderson is the only academic institution at which one faculty member tried to poison another who is his or her lover, here’s a little morsel from

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Don’t Ask the Question If You Don’t Want to Know the Answer

Don’t Ask the Question If You Don’t Want to Know the Answer By Leonard Zwelling          This is really good advice. It is often given to defense attorneys about asking their clients whether or not “they did it.” In general, it works for everyone. How about some examples?          In the early days of the

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RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships By Leonard Zwelling          I have written about relationships a great deal. It’s a major theme of the book I am about to publish for it is relationships, or the lack thereof, that are so crippling the federal government and, in particular, the ability of the Congress and the President to cooperatively deal with

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What Would a “Complete Response” to the Results of the MD Anderson Faculty Survey Look Like?

What Would a “Complete Response” to the Results of the MD Anderson Faculty Survey Look Like? By Leonard Zwelling        Once again a survey of the faculty of MD Anderson has been completed and the results are in. Once again we learn what we all already knew. Morale is lousy. Attitudes are terrible. People feel

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