Surgical Diversions » Uncategorized http://thefragens.com/blog My time out of the operating room. Sun, 13 May 2012 18:52:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Election Postmortem http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/11/election-postmortem/ http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/11/election-postmortem/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:44:49 +0000 Andy Fragen http://thefragens.com/blog/?p=572 Continue reading → No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Barack Obama is the POTUS-Elect. Congrats. I’m so glad it was decisive and isn’t going to have lawyers involved. I have to say I called this in November, 2007 and wrote about Obama four years ago. I wish him all the best our country needs it’s best and brightest working together.

Prop. 8 in my home state of California hasn’t yet been decided officially but with 95% of the precincts reporting it is passing by 4%. Personally, I’m glad the citizens got to vote this issue and the legality isn’t going to be decided by a 4 judges who disagreed with a similar ballot measure from 2000 that passed with about 61% of the vote.

Back to your regular unscheduled programming.

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]]> http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/11/election-postmortem/feed/ 0 Washington Priorities http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/10/washington-priorities/ http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/10/washington-priorities/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:23:48 +0000 Andy Fragen http://thefragens.com/blog/?p=568 Continue reading → No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> The current financial meltdown is the news of the day and the politicos in Washington are trying to fix/solve the problem.

Why is it then that the solution is 400+ pages long and contains crap like money for wooden arrow makers and wool studies?

Is Washington so riddled with ADD that they can’t keep their eye on the ball and produce legislation that does only ONE thing?

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]]> http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/10/washington-priorities/feed/ 0 McCain Campain on Hold?? http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/09/mccain-campain-on-hold/ http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/09/mccain-campain-on-hold/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:20:58 +0000 Andy Fragen http://thefragens.com/blog/?p=558 Continue reading → No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This is joke right? Who advises these people.

On the other hand, my congratulations go out to President Obama.

Addendum:
This political stunt only works for McCain if he blows up any existing plan supported by the Dems (done) and his proposed plan gets instituted and actually works.

Side note:
The Dems could, in theory, pass whatever plan they want without Republican support, GWB already said he’d sign it.

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]]> http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/09/mccain-campain-on-hold/feed/ 0 Biden VEEP?? http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/08/biden-veep/ http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/08/biden-veep/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:45:53 +0000 Andy Fragen http://thefragens.com/blog/?p=534 Continue reading → Related posts:
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Personally I think Bill Richardson would have been a better choice. Adds the foreign policy cred without all of Biden’s baggage.

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]]> http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/08/biden-veep/feed/ 0 Happy New Year! http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/12/happy-new-year-2/ http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/12/happy-new-year-2/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:59:58 +0000 Andy Fragen http://thefragens.com/blog/?p=469 Continue reading → Related posts:
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]]> http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/12/happy-new-year-2/feed/ 0 No more white coats?! http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/no-more-white-coats/ http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/no-more-white-coats/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:32:40 +0000 Andy Fragen http://drfragen.com/wordpress/?p=461 Continue reading → No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>
  • End for traditional doctor’s coat

    • The traditional doctor’s white coat is to be changed as part of government plans to tackle hospital infections.

    The new style clothing will have short sleeves under guidance to come into effect at the start of next year.

    Doctors would also not be allowed to wear long-sleeve shirts, jewellery, or watches as part of the measures.

    You can just tell by reading the article that they did absolutely zero research on this subject. Perhaps if they could get everyone to just wash their hands it they would have better results. I can’t wait till the JCAHO tries to make us do this.

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    ]]>     http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/no-more-white-coats/feed/ 0     Acorn http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/acorn/ http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/acorn/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:17:42 +0000 Andy Fragen http://drfragen.com/wordpress/?p=460 Continue reading → No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Gus Mueller of VoodooPad fame has just released a new image editor, Acorn.

    Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the options you’ll need without any overhead.

    Given Gus’ prior software samplings I bought Acorn without even trying it. ;-)

    Knowing Gus I’m sure it will live up to his expectations.

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    ]]>     http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/acorn/feed/ 0     iPhone needs http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/iphone-needs/ http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/iphone-needs/#comments Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:23:04 +0000 Andy Fragen http://drfragen.com/wordpress/?p=459 Continue reading → Related posts:
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    Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     I really want an iPhone. It’s not that I can’t go out and buy one, especially since Steve just lowered the price by $200, it’s just that the iPhone doesn’t fulfill one of my critical needs.

    I’m a doctor. I gave up using a pager in lieu of a cell phone over 6 years ago. I don’t miss it. Currently, I’m using a Treo 650 and it suits my needs better than an iPhone in only the following category.

    It’s louder!

    Unfortunately, it’s an important category. The alert tone on the iPhone is not currently customizable, nor is it loud enough by half. By loud enough I mean can I hear it from the other end of the house.

    Steve if you’re listening here’s what I want in an alert tone.

    1. Let me make my alert tone LOUD.

    2. Let me choose the ringtone/alert tone that I want. “Help - The Beatles” would be OK.

    3. Let me set the number of times the alert goes off before I either dismiss it or it dismisses itself. Like an alert in iCal works.

    4. Let me have the option to repeat the alert every x minutes until I dismiss it.

    5. Let me not have the same alert settings for MobileMail.app that I have the SMS.

    I think that’s about it. Currently my Treo doesn’t do 2-5 and I don’t care, but as long as I’m putting up a wish list…

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    ]]>     http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/iphone-needs/feed/ 0     Cell phones and hospitals, round 2 http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/cell-phones-and-hospitals-round-2/ http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/cell-phones-and-hospitals-round-2/#comments Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:40:59 +0000 Andy Fragen http://drfragen.com/wordpress/?p=458 Continue reading → No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> From Reuters:

    “Critical care equipment is vulnerable to electromagnetic interference by new-generation wireless telecommunication technologies with median distances of about 3 centimeters.”

    Wow, 3 whole centimeters. Color me unimpressed.

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    ]]>     http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/09/cell-phones-and-hospitals-round-2/feed/ 0     unmount.sh Part 3 http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/08/unmountsh-part-3/ http://thefragens.com/blog/2007/08/unmountsh-part-3/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:57:46 +0000 Andy Fragen http://drfragen.com/wordpress/?p=457 Continue reading → Related posts:
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    Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     With some urging I’ve made the unmount.sh script work for samba shares. It works in preliminary testing.

    I also re-wrote the script to make it quite a bit simpler to add or change the search strings and thus the types of shares that the script is capable of unmounting. So far it will unmount AFP, sshfs and Samba shares when the script detects a change in your routers MAC address.

    The upside is I no longer see the SPOD or have my Finder freeze if I forgot to unmount an AFP share on my laptop. :-)

    Go grab it.

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