“What would FDR do if faced with Trump and Vance and Musk?”

Mike Magee Children of this era, decades from now, will recall a pandemic and their experiences with vaccines, in the same manner as citizens of my age recall the polio vaccine campaigns in the 1950’s. While my generation was less informed on the science than our counterparts today, we had three advantages: National administrative leadership […]

The Birth of Immunology

Mike Magee The field of Immunology is little more than a half-century old and still shrouded in a remarkable degree of mystery. Even describing what we do know is a complex challenge. One way to proceed is to climb the scaffolding provided by the wide array of Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine over the […]

Pope Francis, Skadden, Scalia and “Due Process.”

Mike Magee “If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.” ― St. Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuit Order The Pope’s passing interrupted an epic battle between Trump and the rest of the civilized world over whether America remains a […]

The Birth of The Germ Theory

Mike Magee When Yellow Fever broke out shortly after the arrival of a trading ship from Saint-Dominque in Philadelphia among colonists with no immunity in 1793, the main response was panic, fear, and mass evacuation from the city. Five thousand citizens, roughly 10% of the population, including Alexander Hamilton and his wife, fled. Experts were […]

The Birth of The Sanitation Movement from “Dirty Old London” to NYC.

Mike Magee I. Florence Nightengale and Sidney Herbert Order had always been part of Florence Nightingale’s life. Her father was William Edward Shore, a Country Squire, who at age 21 inherited his rich uncle’s huge fortune as well as his name. On his death, the younger (now) Nightingale, seamlessly managed the profits of the family’s […]

“Think Microscopically” – The Birth of Cell Theory.

Mike Magee If there was an All-Star team for 20th Century Medicine, two members of the roster would likely be William Welch and William Osler, two of the “Big Four” founders of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. (The other two were surgeon William Stewart Halsted and obstetrician Howard Atwood Kelly.) Welch served as the […]

The Most Profitable Convenience Store Product? Caffeinated, but not coffee.

Mike Magee If you enter a Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts on any given day, it is more than likely that you will exit with roughly half the maximum recommended daily dosage of caffeine in a hot or cold coffee beverage. No surprise here. But you may be surprised to know that your caffeine hit is […]

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