Doctor Hacks
What should doctors do with their mistakes?
Clinical audit is one of the most important things we do, and I have been looking for a way to safely perform personal case reviews. I need to critically review cases where something bad happened, or I feel I could have done better. I need to record that information for my development, but [...]
Medical software I couldn’t do without
After a discussion on the Twitter, I got thinking about core medical apps and hardware. We all need an email client and we all need a browser. But what applications are vital to my medical practice? Maybe I wouldn’t even use them if I wasn’t a doctor?
The list is suprisingly short:
Papers
Papers is [...]
Share your medical software secrets
Be a case study for others
I am preparing a series where I feature case studies of readers and what software they use for their medical life. If you would like to be considered for a case study, please contact me. I am interested particularly in how people have set up work-arounds and systems [...]
How to use your iPhone to keep a patient list
The App store has opened in a huge fanfare, but we are yet to see any patient information managers. They will come, but probably at a premium. However, the software built in to an iPhone is sufficient to keep your patient list up to date, and backed up. Furthermore, there will be no [...]
How to work on public computers without going mad
I have recently been dealing with University computers, and getting increasingly frustrated. They often have Firefox installed (my preferred browser), but you can’t install any plugins, including media players. Trying to use IE is even worse. I have the same trouble when I am using hospital computers - slow interface, no bookmarks, no [...]