Favorites

A few favorite pieces

The Bedside Profession - New York Times (op-ed), 1995

Right to Live - New York Times (op-ed), 2000

Ideas and Trends- Back to the Future, Medicine and Our Genes New York Times (Week in Review), 2000 (w D. Ausiello)

The Molecular Biography of the Cell Cell, 2005 (w D. Melton)

'The Black Swan' Review: Shattering the Bell Curve Wall Street Journal, 2007 

Balancing Disruptive Innovation and Incremental Progress in Medicine The Atlantic, 2011

What Silicon Valley Doesn't Understand About Medicine Forbes, 2011 

Finally: A Business Memoir That Owes More to Nassim Taleb Than to Jack Welch Forbes, 2014 (Discussion of Ed Catmull's "Creativity, Inc.")

In Praise of Breadth Forbes, 2019 (Discussion of David Epstein's "Range")

The Startling History Behind Merck's New Cancer Blockbuster Forbes, 2017 (detailed history of Keytruda)

'Loonshots' Review: In Praise of Wild Ideas Wall Street Journal,  2019

Political Polarization Has Hit Medicine Too The Bulwark, 2020

The Balance The Bulwark 2023

Learning From History How To Think About the Technology of the Moment Timmerman Report, 2023

Two New Books About Risk, Skill and Luck Offer Insights for R&D Leaders Timmerman Report 2024

Success in Film and Pharma: Contingent, Not Random Timmerman Report, 2024

'Source Code' Review: A Life of DOS and Don'ts Wall Street Journal, 2025