Dr Fragen in the operating room

Andy Fragen

  • iPhone needs

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    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

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    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

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    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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  • TPA and the Trauma Patient

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    In case you didn’t know or were wondering, using [TPA][] in the trauma patient isn’t a good idea. It’s especially bad when the path of the bullet went across to top of the liver. And before you ask, yes there was a vascular injury and yes a vascular surgeon used the TPA. I guess another…

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  • Running SpamAssassin locally

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    While I haven’t yet gotten an iPhone I’m making preparations. I realized that I was going to need to do something about email spam so that I could use an email address on my domain with the iPhone. My problem is that since I don’t run my mail server I’ve got no way to pull…

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