The Palmdoc Chronicles

Yousuf Gaffar writes ine:

Hi,
Thanks for the wonderful blog. I’m a senior Hematology-Oncology Fellow from Tampa, FL. I have been using PDAs since I graduated Med School in 1998. Palm III, then Visor Deluxe, then Treo 90, now Tungsten T3.
In terms of programs:
Calculators: Haemonc Rules (Best By Far, most useful); MedRules, Medmath (with [...]

Medical Wizards have released PA Toolbox 5.0 which is a suite of 15 modules for the PA
working in the critical care, emergency or primary care environment.

PA ToolBox provides the most valuable modules from ERSuite for the PA working in the critical care, emergency or primary care environment. This product also provides substantial textbook type content [...]

Skyscape is not forgetting the animal doctors with these two new releases:
ParasitesDC™ (Parasitology: Diagnosis And Treatment Of Common Parasitisms In Dogs And Cats)

The PDA reference is can be used by both the technician and the practitioner in the clinic as a concise, easy to use and accurate means of diagnosing commonly seen parasites of dogs [...]

It is now 4 days after the disastrous earthquake north of Sumatra which resulted in devastation across coastal Asia due to tidal waves and tsunamis.
Orenjus of KVPUG (the Klang Valley Palm User Group) is one of the young Malaysian doctors who have volunteered to assist via Mercy Malaysia’s efforts. At first he was supposed to [...]

Richard Wahl from Tucson writes;

Hi.
Perspectives from a pediatrician — here are the Palm applications I
use most often:
General medical: Clinical Medicine Consult (with iSilo), Pepid, Merck
(with free journal access).
Drug databases: Pepid, Harriet Lane, Prescriber’s Letter PDA version
(and about to delete the “free, gift subscirption” to ePocrates Pro
which arrived anonymously — just don’t trust its feedback [...]

Luiz Eduardo from São Paulo, Brazil writes:

I follow Medical Palm software since the days of my Palm Vx 5 years ago. When I started my internship in Ophthalmology 3 years ago I was the only one with a Palm device (a m505), out of 19 residents; now there are 10 residents with Palm devices. We [...]

I was a little amused to read that WeightWatchers have recently released a program for PDAs that work hand-in-hand with the company’s online services. The Weight Watchers on-the-Go mobile program will eliminate the need to carry around a log-book and is ahandy way to carry the 25,000 item food database.
I am amused because some [...]

Bill writes:

Well First of all I use to have epocrates but since I bought my Treo 650 I have switched to davis drugs for nurses till epocrates comes out with SD transfer. Also I use tabes from Skyscape and Medcalc. Use to use infusical but also doesn’t work on Treo’s. Lastly I [...]

Orrison Books and the USBMIS have released Medical Imaging Consultant, the PDA version.
This is available for both the Palm and Pocket PC platforms.
“With all the same great diagnosing information that can be found in the Print Edition, the Medical Imaging Consultant, PDA Edition allows physicians to order The One Best Test in diagnostic imaging in [...]

I have 9 Gmail invitations left. If you would like one, all you have to do is to email me your Medical Palm PDA experience with regard to how it is useful in your daily work and your favorite applications. A free Gmail invitation goes out to every email published.
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