iPhone Apps for the Medical Profession
After all the years of being tutted at for using your mobile phone whilst anywhere near a patient, (heaven forbid it should be in a hospital) I was slightly surprised when I discovered that there are medical applications available, specifically targeting Medical Students and Doctors.
Now, I can imagine there are certain advantages to having all the information for the millions of drugs, and hundreds of thousands of conditions that could be affecting your patient. Is there life after the stigma of the mobile in hospitals?
I think so. It’s been proven recently by many organisations that the frequencies mobiles use are harmless to medical equipment, so why shouldn’t your Doctor have all of the (possibly hundreds) of side effects that could result if he gives you that drug in combination with your statin?
Personally, I’d be a lot more comfortable, knowing that the person administering my medication can use an iPhone app to calculate my dosage, rather than making a decimal place error when mentally calculating it, and making me ill, if not more.
Now…. I’m a little biased. I am a medical student. Friends of mine have the iPhone, and use it for everything from diagnosis to drug reviews. I would personally feel a lot more confident with an iPhone in my pocket, I want my (eventual) patients to get the very best care, and that means I want to make sure that I’m prescribing to the best of my ability.
Anyone who has ever used a massive medical textbook, (let alone 20 for referencing one condition) will know how impractical the world of medical knowledge is. Having all that information in a handy form (namely on an iPhone) would be a monumental, even a revolutionary change in the UK medical profession, I believe, for the better.
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Boiner J. from patio designs
There are some medical pronunciation apps on iTunes that I found helpful as a 1st year pharm student. There is one out for drug pronunciations and I think they’re coming out with a microbiology and anatomy one, too.
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Amy from FreebieJeebies
I would! But I kind of have a reason for that. Hope everyone gets something from this.
Melissa Young
Definitely it is a pleasure to take the time to read a post like this. I’ll be saving it on my favs so I can check it later again. when do you think you would write again about this?
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M Micheals
Thats Too nice, when it comes in india hope it can make a Rocking place for youngster.. hope that come true.
iPhon3n3wz
that looks really cool
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mary from nursing degrees
Yeah right, those things are really informative..
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