Len Zwelling

The Price Of Drugs By Leonard Zwelling This article was published in the Science section of The New York Times on March 6. It describes several patients with serious, debilitating diseases requiring specialized drug treatments to survive and how those patients struggle to find the money to defray the costs of the drugs. This is […]

The Fifth Career: lenzwelling.com By Leonard Zwelling I’m on my fifth career. I was a real doctor once, a medical oncologist actually. Then I was a molecular pharmacologist doing basic research on the mechanism of action of antineoplastic drugs. Then I was research administrator. I got to be a vice president and had a big

When I was an intern the Durham VA Hospital, there was a sign taped to the ceiling of one of the workrooms. It said in big, bold letters: SUBDURAL HEMATOMA/PULMONARY EMBOLUS. This was to remind all house officers, at work in the middle of the night, about likely diagnoses for mysterious or confusing diagnostic puzzles.

Rodeo By Leonard Zwelling All you need to know about Texas can be learned from going to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Or, it least it seems that way. First, it’s big. I have been told that it is the biggest rodeo in the world and certainly the biggest in North America. Second, there’s

Chaos: The White House In Shambles By Leonard Zwelling The list is long and growing. It is the list of the people who have worked for Donald Trump and no longer do. That list is too numerous to enumerate any longer. Hope Hicks is just the latest. She will undoubtedly not be the last. Jeff

Who knew I went to medical school to save my own life?

Trump’s Ideas About Guns May Be More Dangerous Than The Guns By Leonard Zwelling Now Donald Trump is believing that he would be an excellent SWAT officer and he would have charged into the high school and saved kids from the shooter with the AR-15. This, even if Trump was unarmed. Does he ever consider

Assuming That: A Very Bad Plan By Leonard Zwelling It is said that to “assume” anything makes an “ass” of “u” and “me.” I agree with this. I am reminded of this every time I go to a movie and something is wrong with the projection and the majority of the audience just sits there

Weasels: Our Current Leaders By Leonard Zwelling America has the best government that money can buy. What was clearly demonstrated in the debate surrounding health care reform and the ACA, and about which I write in my book Congressional Malpractice, due out on March 1, is that the Congress of the United States is bought

Poor Health Care By Leonard Zwelling https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/us/politics/trump-cheaper-health-insurance.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=sectionfront These are two articles from The New York Times on Tuesday, February 20. I’m depressed. The first talks about how the Trump Administration is trying to convince well people to buy short term health insurance plans that do not contain the minimum benefits of most ObamaCare plans and