A Debt of Gratitude to Former President Trump. Here’s why…

Mike Magee No man is above the law! That is the screaming headline behind last evening’s indictment (first of many) of former President Donald Trump. Donald Trump, for a time, sat himself in the middle of America’s triangle of power. From his seat as President, he installed himself as “a Golden Idol” and […]

“If Men Were Angels…” American Democracy Will Pass This Stress Test.

Mike Magee As we enter a new and potentially historic week, with a former President doing his best to reignite a Civil War in our nation, we do well to take a breath and reread James Madison’s words from Federalist No. 51. But first, a few words of history. When it came to checks and […]

Deregulation – The Beginning and End of Silicon Valley Bank (1983 to 2023)

Mike Magee To know Silicon Valley Bank – SVP (prior to its dramatic demise) is to understand the world of tech start-up’s – their needs, appetite for risk, human behaviors, and the rapidly changing and dramatic world of technologic breakthroughs. The bank itself was four decades old created in 1983, in Silicon Valley, for Silicon […]

AMA/PhRMA v. Federalist Society – Let The Witch Trials Begin!

Mike Magee The law is a funny thing. When British settlers first arrived on our eastern shores in 1607, their clergy-led bosses struggled to establish the rules while “clinging precariously” to life itself. Where did the rules come from in the decades that followed? Some were derived from folk law. Others were indigenous (unique to […]

Leaning In To Public Health Policy: Public Health as Nation Builder.

Mike Magee As Stanford Professor of Law, Lawrence M. Friedman, wrote in A History of American Law, “One hundred and sixty-nine years went by between Jamestown and the Declaration of Independence. The same length of time separates 1776 and the end of World War II.” During those very early years that preceded the formal declaration […]

The Most Important Builder of the House of Medicine You Never Knew.

Mike Magee Medical History is just not fair. What other conclusion can you draw from the thousands of references and citations featuring Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush and his wild ideas on how to heroically treat Yellow Fever in 1793, but likely never heard of Dr. John Henry Rauch. The former signed the Declaration of Independence […]

Ecology Rescued the AMA and Medical Professionalism Beginning in 1870.

Mike Magee The results of their 1851 survey of 12,400 men from the eight leading U.S. colleges had to be shocking. The AMA was only four years old at the time and being forced to acknowledge a significant lack of public interest in a physician’s services. This in turn had caused the best and the […]

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