Agents of Democracy
Mike Magee In the Age of “Doomscrolling,” Doctors and Nurses Need To Stay Focused On Their Primary Mission. Exactly 1 year ago, mental health experts alerted the medical world to their version of an...
View Article“Some Like It Hot.”– An Old Disease Arrives Anew.
Mike Magee Naomi Orestes PhD, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, didn’t mince words as she placed our predicament in context when she said, “If you know your Greek tragedies you know...
View ArticlePicking Up The “Single Payer” Baton From Ady Barkan.
Mike Magee The Politico headline in 2019 declared dramatically, “The Most Powerful Activist in America is Dying.” This week, 4 1/2 years later, their prophecy came true, as activist Ady Barkan...
View ArticleCourage Has A Face. Her Name Is Hadley.
Mike Magee “Don’t call me a saint,” said founder of the early 1930’s Catholic Workers Movement, Dorothy Day. “I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” Oddly enough, says Jesuit writer, James Martin,...
View ArticleThe Way Men Ought To Behave – According to TikToc.
Mike Magee The juxtapositioning of Tuesday’s New York Times headlines was disturbing. The first “Why Does This Bride Look So Mad?”, was followed by “An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy in Men.”...
View ArticleThe True Color of Tribalism – an orange sash, a green flag, a red MAGA...
Mike Magee As Thanksgiving Day approaches, let’s give thanks for the study of history, in part because it reminds us that Trumpian words like “vermin” have been used before and serve to alert the human...
View ArticleGiving Thanks to Women, and Children, and Lives Filled With Promise.
Mike Magee As Thanksgiving Day approaches, let’s give thanks for women, and children, and lives filled with promise. One President who understood the power of promise more than many others was FDR....
View Article“AI god Tells Medical-Industrial Complex: ‘Your Health Care System Is Perfect!’”
Mike Magee One of the top ten headlines of all time created by the satirical geniuses at The Onion was published 25 years ago this December. It read, “God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy. ‘No,’...
View ArticleThe Terri Schiavo Case Once Again Exploited – This Time By The Left.
Mike Magee The case spanned 15 years, and was rejected by the Supreme Court for a hearing four times. Hijacked from doctors and patients by political opportunists and Right-to-Life activists, it rode...
View ArticleTech Ethicist Says, “AI impact on society and culture will be unimaginable.”
Mike Magee His biography states, “He speaks to philosophical questions about the fears and possibilities of new technology and how we can be empowered to shape our future. His work to bridge cultures...
View Article“No Man Can Tame A Tiger Into A Kitten By Stroking It.”
Mike Magee On the evening of December 29, 1940, with election to his 3rd term as President secured, FDR delivered these words as part of his sixteenth “Fireside Chat”: “There can be no appeasement with...
View Article2024 Prediction – Society Will Arrive At An Inflection Point in AI Advancement.
Mike Magee For my parents, March, 1965 was a banner month. First, that was the month that NASA launched the Gemini program, unleashing “transformative capabilities and cutting-edge technologies that...
View ArticleAnother Turn of the 25th Amendment – And Still Not The Answer For Trump’s...
Mike Magee On May 16, 2017 New York Times conservative columnist, Russ Douthat, wrote “The 25th Amendment Solution for Removing Trump.” That column was the starting point for a Spring course I taught...
View ArticleTrump is Mentally Ill. Say It Out Loud.
Sunday Op-Ed: Mike Magee With the Iowa caucus just 8 days away, a tragic Donald Trump continues to dig himself into a hole that will eventually lead to some personal hell. I think we are at a point...
View ArticleDoes AI Spell The Demise of Relationship Based Health Care?
Mike Magee “What exactly does it mean to augment clinical judgement…?” That’s the question that Stanford Law professor, Michelle Mello, asked in the second paragraph of a May, 2023 article in JAMA...
View ArticleDon’t Panic. This Is Democracy.
Mike Magee Shock and dismay were once again in the air this week as Donald Trump did his best to be thrown out of the courtroom in New York City during his unrequested attendance at his second Jean...
View Article“Silence Is So Accurate” In A Hyperkinetic AI World.
Mike Magee “I mean, people keep saying in these troubled moments, in these troubled moments. It seems like we’re always in a troubled moment, perhaps this one even more so than usual…But the artwork is...
View ArticleOpposing “Obamacare” Is Political Suicide For Downstream Republicans.
Mike Magee Despite Trump’s recent renewed pledge to once again take on Obamacare, most Republican leaders understand that opposing the increasingly popular program is political suicide. Experts have...
View ArticleBrawn to Brain to Health: A Virtuous Cycle.
Mike Magee I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the future of work. My current obsession relates back to the accelerating forces of human isolation and shifts in the delivery of health care brought on...
View Article2024 Word of the Year
Mike Magee Not surprisingly, Hcom’s nominee for “word of the year” involves AI, and specifically “the language of human biology.”. As Eliezer Yudkowski, the founder of the Machine Intelligence...
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