Author Archives: Tom Foutz

About Tom Foutz

Tom is a pediatric neurology resident at Seattle Children's Hospital. He is interested in the use of technology to provide better care to patients and their families.

New email with attachment using Sparrow or Sparrow lite

Just wanted to share a little automator action I made for creating a new email with an attachment in finder using sparrow. Just create a new service, specify that the “Service receives selected: Files or Folders” in “Any Application”. Then, … Continue reading

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Hope & Doubt

Hope All treatments in medicine have potential benefits, but also potential risks. Prescribing treatment requires some degree of hope that the patient will be part of the group of people in which treatment benefits outweigh the damages. Patients receiving prescriptions … Continue reading

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Incision Methods

(This blog will contain interesting findings which I encounter during my training, with an emphasis on interesting research projects that come up.) Today, we did an abdominal hysterectomy; the uterus was the size of a watermelon. It was the same … Continue reading

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