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First of all I would like to begin by saying that this is my personal top 5 most used applications on my iPhone/iTouch. I think these 2 Apple products are really made for those in the medical line.

Problems - I think that iTouch is better in term of using it like a PDA compared to the iPhone. I had this problem of using losing my signals frequently after installing some ‘bad’ applications that temper with the network. Since iTouch can not be used to call, it doesn’t affect its performance at all.

I’ll start with the list now

1. Lexi Complete

This is like the King of all medical apps on iPhone/iTouch. It includes - Lexi drugs, Pediatric Lexi-drugs, Nursing Lexi-drugs, Pharmacogenomics, Natural Products, Infectious Diseases, Lab & Diagnostic Procedures, Harrison’s Practice, 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, AHFS Essentials, Poisoning & Toxicology and NBCA Exposures. Jaw-dropping right?

The Harrison’s Practise by itself could already give you all the information that you want about anything you could think of. I found Lexi-drugs to be quite handy but the Stedman’s Medical Dictionary will definitely come into handy all the time. Lab & Diagnostic Procedures is very specific and detail in all the lab test and even give you info on how to do it and what are the main principles.

2. 5-Minutes Clinical Consult

I found this very useful as well. If I couldn’t find the thing that you are looking for in the Lexi-complete, this is definitely the 2nd place that I’ll look for. It provides longer and more detail information. (Please bear in mind that ALL of the information given is really quite complete and long. A lot of readings!)

3. MedCards

It is a compilation of useful diagrams and scheme or procedures that you would like to have on your palm when you are doing stuffs.

All these normal lab values.

4. MedCalculator

Not using this yet but I think it is going to be handy in the future!

5. Flashcards

Really useful when you are bored and waiting to go to sleep on the bed. Playing with the flash cards could be quite useful as you could remember some of the info better and maybe find a few new things as well!

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Discover

I put this in as one of the ‘medical apps’ because when this is used together with ‘DiskAid’, you could put all those word files that you have into this device and read it any place you one. A good plus point about Discover is that if the word files are too long and you stopped somewhere in the middle, you could always bookmark that point and start from there the next time you want to read it instead of scrolling down and look for the place that you stopped.