On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 22:46:49 +0000, Michael Leuty <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>A fall-out advertisement in this week's BMJ invites me to buy a 256Mb SD
>card for my Palm, loaded with the BNF, three Oxford clinical handbooks,
>a medical dictionary, NICE guidance (hooray!), 900 EBM guidelines (even
>more hooray!), Medicines Compendium, Whitaker's Pictorial Anatomy, a
>drug interactions encyclopaedia, an ICD-10 list, OPCS 4, several
>clinical calculators (which I think are available for free download
>anyway), a patient associations directory and chemical lab references.
>
>Does this sound a good thing to spend £350 on? Rather more than the cost
>of the books, but easier to put in your pocket without distorting your
>svelte tailoring.
Over-priced over-kill product made by someone who does not understand how
GPs work or what kind of questions they ask. Any gadget has to be useful,
and available to the many rather than the few.
I have a much better solution that can address that last point
splendidly. IPR issues prevent me from discussing it here.
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