AI and The Future of American Medicine

Mike Magee MD (This paper is provided Open Source as a public service. It may be republished and distributed with proper attribution. Reading Time: 30 minutes.) The history of Medicine has always involved a clash between the human need for compassion, understanding, and partnership, and the rigors of scientific discovery and advancing technology. At […]

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 […]

Is There a “Famous Trio” in Human Science For the 21st Century?

Mike Magee Yale historian, Frank M. Snowden wisely notes in his 2020 book, “Epidemics and Society”, that “We must avoid the pitfall of believing the driver of scientific knowledge is ever a single genius working alone.” To make his point, Snowden tells the story of what he terms “The Famous Trio” – three different scientists […]

Is Health Tech Firing On Too Many Cylinders?

Mike Magee What will be the lasting impact of the Covid 19 pandemic? We still don’t know the answer to that question in full. But one thing that can be said with some certainty is that it has strengthened the hand of Big Tech and all things virtual. Consider the fact that within the Biden […]