title: The End of Medicine, How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) will Reboot your Doctor
author:  Andy Kessler 
description: Kessler, bestselling author of <i>Running Money</i>, made his fortune speculating on Silicon Valley. Now he turns his nose for new technology to medicine. Will the same advances that revolutionized computers ripple through hospitals, changing how health care works? Kessler interviews doctors, technicians, radiologists and the businessmen behind technology in medicine. Advances in radiologywhich encompasses all the ways we peek inside our bodies, from X-rays to MRIsare beginning to make our hospitals look like <i>Star Trek</i>. New scanners can provide a high-resolution, three-dimensional image of the heart and allow doctors to spot blockages. Computer-aided diagnostic software is slowly replacing radiologists in looking for cancer in mammograms. But HMOs, lawsuits and patients' desire for personal care may prevent these new techniques from ever being used. As Kessler asks, "What if the future was here with no one to pay for it?" Kessler has a raconteur's ability to entertain, and his outsider's view of medicine is far from typical in a book on health care. However, his narrative is fractured by too many entertaining anecdotes, preventing his story from moving forward. The hors d'oeuvres are delicious, but in this meal, there's not enough room left over for the meat.<i> (July)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # Shift
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Hugh Howey
  
  
  
  
  
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  _For all those who find themselves well and truly alone._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **What would you do**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **And the only place you could live**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **This is the start of the Silo.**
  
  
  
  
  
  This is the first SHIFT.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _IN 2007, THE Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware
  and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human
  cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs and even self-propagate._
  
  
  
  
  
  _That same year, CBS re-aired a programme about the effects of propranolol on
  sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe
  out the memory of any traumati