The Palmdoc Chronicles

Clinical Pediatrics — MobiReader Version 2006 has been released by Pacific Primary Care

Application Description
Topics include: Adolescent medicine, Behavioral & Developmental issues, vaccinations, well child visits, fever work-ups, emergencies, PALS, pediatric syndromes, sleep disorders, GI, nephrology, urology, many orthopedic conditions, dehydration, dermatology, ENT, growth, puberty, routine examinations. Pediatric medicines and dosing. Neonatal care, breast feeding and [...]

Mobile Docs love email on the go. I have had occasion to respond to urgent email regarding clinical matters while on the road and even at the airport!
Gmail is “almost” open to the public and you can actually sign up for a Gmail account if you have a US mobile phone. (If you don’t then [...]

Skyscape has produced another Consumer orientated PDA product eMedicine: Consumer Health

eMedicine’s Consumer Health - written by physicians for patients and consumers - is continuously updated and provides the most current information on thousands of diseases and disorders. Each topic is reviewed by 2 physicians and a PharmD and covers a full range of health issues [...]

Doctors are always in a hurry. One of the things which slows down our use of PDAs is the input.
I have tried and use both PalmOS and Windows Mobile input systems. The latter has more options for input but for ease of use I still prefer PalmOS Graffiti as it allows input not only in [...]

Andrew Yee has updated Eponyms
Version v1.84 now contains 1580 eponyms - it’s available for Palm and Pocket PC.
So if you want to know what Rovsing’s sign is (as well as 1579 other Eponyms) - then grab this freebie now!
On a related note, one of the annoying things I find in my part of the [...]

Justine from CreativeAlgorithms wrote in:

I happened to notice some of your blog entries when I was looking on Palm Addicts. You were recently discussing Palm date calculators and travel applications. Coincidentally, we are a small developer of Palm apps and have two apps that fall into these categories.
Let me start by introducing myself: [...]

Well, this could be my next Palm, if this rumour proves to be true. The specs of course are not known, but give me at least a 64MB Treo, decent battery life, BT 1.2, then I might be sorely tempted - especially as my SE phones ( T610 and T68i) are exhibiting some unhealthy [...]

Andrew Schechtman announces that the full and unabridged version of DermMeister is now available for download from the
MeisterMed website and from the Medical iSilo(tm) Depot.
A free dermatology Atlas for your PDA!

Tags: iSilo

I stand corrected as Go has provided a useful tip in the comments to my post on the Date Calculator : it’s still available on the WWW! Great news!
Go says

You can find Dates! Ver.2.11 on the web as below.
http://www.tucows.com/preview/34704
And I find a comment about Dates! on
http://www.lawtechguru.com/archives/2004/01/09_great_date_calculator_for_your_palm.html
that I think you found the blog already.
Japanese doctor [...]

Puppymaniac wrote me an email as feedback for Haemoncrules:

Please add a date calculator to the program - It would be very useful for counting number of days since last cycle of chemo and especially days since transplant. Thank you.

Thanks for the suggestion P.
I do use a date calculator myself and one of the gems is [...]