Len Zwelling

Health Insurance Is Not Health Care Is Not Health: Redefining the Goal of Medicine By Leonard Zwelling http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1506241 “The 21st century is the century of biology. The nation that invests in biomedical research will reap untold rewards in its economy and the health of its people”          Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the NIH JAMA […]

The Problem With the Donald Is the Problem With the Ronald: Cut From the Same Sackcloth By Leonard Zwelling          Only Donald Trump can get away with appearing on the Sunday talk shows without appearing. He can phone it in and he does. For several weeks he has been dialing up Meet the Press and

Black Listed By Leonard Zwelling          I looked it up. On my cv. It’s about the only entries I have on my cv for the past few years. I have published 30 opinion pieces in the Houston Chronicle since 1997 and the vast majority have been in the past 6 years since my return from

Daughter-in-law Amanda Cochran and son Richard were able to video my presentation at Murry and Karen Penner’s home on July 29. This was my first ever book signing and reading. If you are curious about what went on that evening, here you go. First bit is a short presentation on the ACA, which is the

The Debate: A Post-Mortem By Leonard Zwelling          Nothing lengthy as the rest of the press will fill the air with its opinion of what happened.          Here’s my take written before listening to the talking heads at 10:15 PM CDT: 1. It was a lot more erudite than I had imagined it would be.

Atonement: When Does a Good Outcome Justify Bad Behavior? By Leonard Zwelling          What would happen if Dr. DePinho really did cure 5 cancers in 5 years as he said he would do (but now denies ever saying it). We all heard it, and certainly greater Houston did, so I really do think he said

A Bit of An Embarrassment By Leonard Zwelling          Imagine my surprise seeing Dr. Karen Lu on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, but no worries, she is not running for the GOP Presidential nomination. She is one of several MD Anderson faculty members (none of whom are identified, so why believe them

The Donald: Why? Is He Really One of Us? By Leonard Zwelling          I have been thinking about little else of late. The other 15 Republican (now 16, I blinked. Ex-Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore has joined the pack) cannot breathe as The Donald does indeed “suck all of the oxygen out of the room” even

Ghost Ship By Leonard Zwelling “It is a common superstition of mariners, that, in the high southern latitudes on the coast of Africa, hurricanes are frequently ushered in by the appearance of a spectre-ship, denominated the Flying Dutchman … The crew of this vessel are supposed to have been guilty of some dreadful crime, in the

1968 By Leonard Zwelling          The only Presidential election in the Age of Aquarius was won by one Richard M. Nixon with Vice Presidential nominee Spiro T. Agnew. They defeated then Vice President Hubert Humphrey and his running mate Edmund Muskie. George Wallace siphoned off sufficient numbers of votes in the Deep South to forever