Yales Goes With iPad

I remember the note service in medical school, and it was a royal pain in the butt. All those notes, and after a few weeks, there were piles of paper everywhere, and the night before the test you would realize you were missing some transcript. So then I got organized, and put them in these humongous binders, that before too long were about to explode.

Now Yale is taking a new approach. They are using an iPad, and a top of the line, 32 GB 3G with a Bluetooth keyboard at that. Add in that they can now load a full year worth of notes, and I am seriously sold at this point.

Just don't tell me it is a computer...

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Doctors Selling Spots On White Coats ???

From Congressional Quarterly:

Critics say physicians who speak at medical society meetings are so compromised by industry sponsorships that, in the words of an Ohio retinal surgeon, “we have reached the point where it would be more convenient for speakers to simply wear NASCAR-style jackets emblazoned with their sponsor’s logos.”

Concerns about industry marketing practices were addressed at a hearing Wednesday in which witnesses said much needs to be done to clear away an enormous web of conflicts of interest spun among physicians by drug industry marketing dollars. Most agreed that the federal government should publicize how much money drug companies are paying to individual doctors, but that should only be the first step.

While I'm not saying that reform couldn't improve things, however, Doctors that do have a financial relationship with a manufacturer are required, and I've heard plenty of them do it, state that at the beginning of a lecture.

It's also ironic that Congress, who are on the take from just about everyone, and receive campaign contributions from big business in far excess than most Doctors make in a lifetime, are going to tell us how to clean things up.

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Hi Def Colonoscopy

From Japan's Corporate News:

Pentax will release its new 'I' series endoscopic system compatible with megapixel images, for the U.S. market, developed to meet the needs of the medical field for high quality, high resolution and multi-functional instruments.

The new system consists of the '90i' video scope with a megapixel CCD in the image sensor and the 'EPK-I' light source processor equipped with advance image processing capabilities.

We say: Better resolution, whether for the Super Bowl, or to see the details of the colon better, is always a good thing.

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