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User experience: Robert Kindzierski

Robert Kindzierski writes in from Canada:

I am a second year medical student from Canada. Before medical school, I graduated from pharmacy where I first was exposed to a palm IIIXE. The minute I saw epocrates and how easy it was to look up drugs, I knew I needed to get one. Since that I have had the Palm IIIXE, then a Sony PEG415 (high-res B&W), then Tungsten T (great device but all buttons froze so it was warrantied), then Tungsten T3 (amazing device) w/ 256Mb SD.
I do not use epocrates anymore. There are far better resources out there. For a drug resource, I rely almost entirely on Lexi-drugs and the other Lexi-comp programs.

I use these programs most often:
1. Isilo- great for all the texts you can find on the net; also very useful for capturing web pages with isiloX
2. Lexi-comp package- Lexi-drugs (Canadian drug names and easiest to find answer quickly), interact (best interaction program out there), 5MCC (great for med school and likely afterwards to get a quick briefing on a particular disease)
3. Stedman’s Medical dictionary- most thorough dictionary and very useful for a medical student
4. Eponyms- great for looking up all the disease’s named after egotistical doctors :) and best of all it is free
5. MedCalc- great program with great interface
6. Docs to go- great program especially when used with the Palm Ultrathin keyboard.
7. Others- many skyscape programs, Sanford guide, etc.
8. Utilities- Filez, backupman, YAUC, SC-103PU scientific calculator

I am still waiting for T3 LEAP driver for the palm wifi card so I can use it at the university.

Thanks for for feedback Robert. A Gmail invite goes out to you - there are still three left for anyone else who wishes to contribute.
I think Lexi-comp has a more comprehensive drug information database compared with ePocrates and importantly too, it supports memory card storage.
As for the Leap driver there is one for the Tungsten C so hopefully someone will come out with one for the SD Wifi card.

Tags: Drugs, ePocrates, iSilo, Lexi, Palm, Sanford, Sanford Guide, Skyscape, Student

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