Medical Reference Documents for the PDA

It has been my experience that whenever I try to load anything really worthwhile into my brain, something equally worthwhile tends to fall out. For me, the Palm Pilot® has been part of the solution to this problem, enabling me to access organized material when it is needed at point of care. If I have assembled the material myself, I tend to remember that I have it, and I can retrieve it quite easily through pre-determined hyperlinks. After some years of repeated use I occasionally find that I remember the material, and the topic can be deleted.

This collection of reference documents for the PDA has been developed over many years in a full-service rural practice. The topics have been useful for the author in management of point-of-care problems when usual sources for reference were too slow or unavailable. They are offered in the hope that they will be useful for others for reference, alteration or criticism. Topics were developed as HTML documents and then ported to iSilo™, a text reader for the Palm Pilot®. Files are included to allow use in Pocket PC® or in web page format. The web page can be edited in a word processor if you wish to change content or format to suit your needs. It can then be sent to your PDA text reader.

Users of this site are encouraged to develop their own references unique to their own information needs. Some instruction is offered to help facilitate this process, and if you have developed a particularly brilliant and useful document, you might wish to submit it to this site. I reserve the right of editorial discretion, however, and I will only include documents I think are useful at point of care. You will be credited for any included documents, but remember that in submitting files on the web you retain no control over your intellectual property.