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Folder Action
An experiment using an OS X Folder Action to automate blog upstreaming reveals it only fires on direct file additions or deletions in the watched folder, not in subfolders, making its practical value questionable.
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Off to the Islands
Vacation is finally here, and the greatest anticipation is reuniting with a wife and kids who have been away for nearly five weeks.
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Rearranging the office
The practice is expanding into a new suite, and while one office battle was lost, new space was secured for both the author and his mother -- with a move of the general surgery practice under consideration once the current lease expires.
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Birthday Boy
Son Jonathan is turning eight and has been given a motivating challenge: reach reading and writing fluency and earn a new iMac connected to the home wireless network.
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Sophie Talk
At just over two years old, a daughter is forming multi-word sentences and speaking with great seriousness -- even if the actual words remain largely undecipherable to her captivated parents.
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West Virginia Surgeon's strike
West Virginia surgeons took coordinated leaves of absence from hospital practice to protest malpractice insurance rates exceeding $100,000 per year, and this post explains the mechanics of their action and why it does not constitute patient abandonment.
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The joys of being a surgeon
The final day of ER call means four Sunday operations and missing visiting family, offering a candid look at the personal costs of surgical on-call life.
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Current Medical Malpractice and Liability Environment
A recap of a compelling ACS Conference talk that challenged the widely-cited claim of 98,000 annual deaths from physician negligence by exposing flaws in the source study, and made the case that effective tort reform is essential to controlling insurance rates and preserving patient access.
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More shit
A detailed account of taking a critically ill patient back to the OR for bowel leakage, discovering interloop abscesses and a small bowel perforation, and managing the case with an ileostomy, colostomy revision, and an open abdomen using a Bogota Bag.
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Cars looted
On a birthday morning, the family discovered their cars had been burglarized overnight, with valuables including a purse, checkbook, credit cards, and a Game Boy stolen -- prompting a long day of account cancellations and a hard-learned lesson.
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Busy week
A hectic week of ten surgical cases concludes with general surgeons convening to draft a proposal to hospital administration seeking compensation for ER call coverage.
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Vacuum
A brief musing on the one-sided nature of blogging -- writing into the void with no expectation of a response, and finding that oddly therapeutic.
