Dr Fragen in the operating room

Andy Fragen

  • No more white coats?!

    * [ End for traditional doctor’s coat](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6998195.stm) > 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…

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  • Acorn

    [Gus Mueller][gm] of [VoodooPad][vp] 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. 馃槈 Knowing…

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  • iPhone needs

    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.…

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  • Cell phones and hospitals, round 2

    From [Reuters][1]: > “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. [1]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070907/tc_nm/mobilephones_hospitals_dc

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  • unmount.sh Part 3

    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,…

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