Dr Fragen in the operating room

Andy Fragen

  • Nationalized Healthcare and the Free Market

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    Nationalized/Universal healthcare will happen. Obama ran on it and he intends to deliver. What’s more, I can see a manner in which the country will flock to it under the current free market insurance system. First, the federal government will expand Medicaid to cover the unemployed and uninsured. Second, the Congress will pass some law…

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  • iPhone Stand

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    While looking for an iPhone stand I came across [the simplest solution][1]. A binder clip. [1]: http://cultofmac.com/iphone-stand-from-binder-clip/4374

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  • Appendiceal Duplication

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    I had a very interesting case the other evening. First, for the uninitiated, it’s usually a bad sign when the surgeon says it was a very _interesting_ case. Generally routine is best. Anyway, nice 50ish year old female with few days of diffuse abdominal pain now localizing to RLQ. Nausea and vomiting. Anorexia. Acute peritoneal…

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  • iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix – Chapter 3

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    I’ve updated the iCal-Invite-Fix script again. This time to allow for adding multiple Exchange servers to the script so that you should only need a single script. The set-up is slightly more complex. As the image above shows there are now only 2 properties, both of which are lists. These lists work together as an…

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  • Subscribing to Delegated Calendars

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    OK, I’m fortunate or crazy enough to run my own server using Apple’s OS X Leopard Server software. It has been, at times, very simple and very complex to set everything up. One of the options that I use is the iCal Server so that I can have shared calendars. Once I got it up…

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  • General Surgery in NY

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    So here I am in NYC at the American Society of General Surgeons clinical meeting. The program is correctly termed controversies as I’m quite certain many of the described treatment paths would cause you to fail your oral boards. Of note is that it seems that most of the attendees have been in practice for…

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