Andy Kessler

On Disruption Interview

I did Q&A with Michael Urlocker on his website, On Disruption, about The End of Medicine.

"It has Kessler's trademark bawdy stories and acid observations, but it is an outsider's examination and diagnosis of an industry that looks poised for change. We traded emails with Andy to learn a bit more.

Q: Andy, what got you interested in looking at the medical business and what got you to thinking that it is ripe for disruption?

I've spent over 20 years tracking the technology business for Wall Street, as an analyst and then as an investor.

The only thing I really learned was to find the silicon.

My new book The End of Medicine is out today

My new book, The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor is out today from HarperCollins. I hope you enjoy it.

Like Wall Street Meat and Running Money, it's basically a bunch of funny stories with the conclusion that cheap enough technology will enable early detection and a lot less folks will have a heart attack, stroke or cancer going forward.

I spent the last several years following doctors around, digging around research labs, going to imaging conferences and getting myself poked, prodded and scanned. And I hate the sight of blood, what was I thinking? In the end, it really comes down to finding silicon so  diagnostics can get cheap enough for insurance companies and Medicare to make  it mainstream. 

The press release is below, and over the next few weeks, I will put up a few excerpts.