Smartphone, MD – A Doctor At the Tip Of Your Fingers

This ist part I in a series of posts about how technology interacts with the modern patient and physician.  I have always considered myself as a technology junkie and I thank my father for that. He always had the newest, fastest and amazing computer (back in the day it was a Gateway 486 – moo!). So when it was my time to start med school, my father gave me the most awesome of gifts saying: “I know how difficult med school can be; this will help you organize your time,” and handed me his old Palm m500. I felt like Luke Skywalker when Obi-Wan gave him the lightsaber for the first time. Little did he know that organizing my time was the least of tasks I would achieve with this new amazing piece of technology I  had just received. During my anatomy course, a professor showed interest in my device, so he introduced me to my first medical app: Epocrates. It really ran on my black and white m500! I instantly thought “this could be big”. After my m500, I upgraded to the Palm Tungsten, then the Treo phone and now, after a succession of Blackberries I have an iPhone 4s. […]