The GreenLight laser and Taprobane

Yesterday evening, I was at SLAUS meeting and Gordon Muir talked about Phallus and Viagra and Cialis. He also showed us a video of GreenLight Laser prostatectomy. Bloodless and just like a TURP, with a side working industry strength laser. The nice thing it it has little affinity to water and a lot to blood. This makes it particularly suitable for this operation. Stones are better dealt with by the Holmium laser.

The trouble wih the green laser is that it is expensive to use. The laser fibre is $1000 and disposable. Hopefully i can try this out soon at ASH, provided someone is ready to pay the extra amount....

I also got a copy of Taprobane Linux 0.3. It is available with bittorrent, but preferring human interaction I got it from the toon in IT times.

It has a great deal of self configration and detection going on at startup, but booted up without probs. Looks smooth with KDE and a nice selection of software, manageable menus. The Konsole is not visible though (gasp!), in the desktop icons or the panel at the bottom.....

I am looking at trying out an additional CD. i will get the debs and make some tar.gzs and see how it works. Apt-CD-ROM and apt-get most...

autostart when inserted and give some info to user.

What goes in?

Zope/Plone/OIO
OIO plug and play forms collection
Clear Health - may need pemission from them?
GNUMED
OpenHealth
OpenEMR
The Canadian Java based system - OSCAR?
Health Imaging using DICOM with conversion of formats
Documentation
Standards - including DICOM systems
Clasification Systems - coding systems
Drugref database
Minimal datasets in different fields including Histopathology?

That is huge!!
:-)

I need to ask them if they are agreeable to this, despite the FOSS freedom to take and make philosophy.....