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Archives for September 2008

Green Hospital Room

Lloyd Alter of TreeHugger interviewed Suzanne Drake of the architectural firm Anshen+Allen during the IIDEX in Toronto. IIDEX NeoCon is Canada’s largest exposition and conference for the design, construction and management of the built environment. Anshen+Allen presented their idea of the green patient room at the conference. Watch the whole interview here… To learn more […]

30 September 2008 | design, ecology, medicine | No Comments

PubSearch for Pubs

In my recent post about the possible use of iPhone by medical doctors, I mentioned PubSearch. PubSearch is an application which allows you to search for scientific articles in the PubMed database on your iPhone. It seams that this was not obvious to some people, or it actually was. Hence this funny review from the […]

30 September 2008 | humor, internet, iphone | No Comments

Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations on iPhone

Modality has just released their two new educational apps for the iPhone. They started with fantastic Netter’s anatomy flash cards and now they moved on to one of the most respected step-by-step guides to general surgery procedures, Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations. Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations consists of several parts devoted to gastrointestinal, miscellaneous […]

30 September 2008 | design, internet, iphone, medicine | 1 Comment

Dr. Rossi has done it again

Valentino Rossi is the famous Italian professional motorcycle racer and his fans call him “The Doctor” (Il Dottore). He is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time and recently he won the Grand Prix of Japan and claimed his sixth MotoGP world championship. Well, congratulations Dr. Rossi. From Wikipedia… Since his dominance […]

29 September 2008 | medicine | No Comments

Why is iPhone perfect for doctors

I purchased my iPhone about six months ago and it has in many ways changed my life for the better. This is especially true regarding my work as a medical doctor. I believe that iPhone is a perfect gadget and that it can improve any physician’s performance. That is way I decided to present some […]

26 September 2008 | internet, iphone, medicine, science | 14 Comments

Pulse Monitor on iPhone

The Unofficial Apple Weblog posted this great video of the new, still to be approved by Apple, iPhone application. It is a pulse monitor which measures your heartbeat rate thru the microphone. It looks great and I can’t wait to try it. I am looking forward to some pulse oximeter probes for the iPhone so […]

25 September 2008 | design, internet, iphone, medicine, science | 5 Comments