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.

The Right to Offend and the Danger of Disordered Thinking

The Right to Offend and the Danger of Disordered Thinking By Leonard Zwelling          In the wake of the attack in Garland, Texas that, fortunately, only left the putatively ISIS-inspired gunmen dead, much has been made of the right to free speech, the gathering the gunmen sought to disrupt, and whether or not the gathering …

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Hillary, Enough. Be Gone!

Hillary, Enough. Be Gone! By Leonard Zwelling          Personally, I have had enough of crooked Presidents of stuff—corporations, academic institutions, governments. If it is possible to head off another disastrous, ethically compromised Presidency before it gets launched, I am there. And I think we have the opportunity.          While I have been an admirer of …

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THEY LIE

They Lie By Leonard Zwelling          It took a while to find out what really happened at My Lai on March 16, 1968. We still don’t really know what happened in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. I suspect there is much about 9/11//01 that we will never know and surely about Edward Snowden, Michael …

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Sex, Love, Drugs, Money and Power: The Answers to the Question-Why?

Sex, Love, Drugs, Money and Power: The Answers to the Question-Why? By Leonard Zwelling        In the many conversations I have had of late about what is happening in MD Anderson’s executive suite, the relationship between those in the suite and the rest of the institution, the behavior of Anderson’s faculty revealed in a Houston …

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When A Mistake Isn’t: Conflict of Interest, Drone Strikes, and Malevolence vs. Incompetence

When A Mistake Isn’t: Conflict of Interest, Drone Strikes, and Malevolence vs. Incompetence        This morning, April 23, the country is being bombarded with two stories of bad judgment, maybe?        In the first (urls, below), President Obama has admitted that raids (probably drone strikes) in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan meant to …

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