Panda on the two philosophies when dealing with drug seekers, as well as ditching his PDA.
I stopped using my PDA as well a few weeks ago. ePocrates was nice, but the database kept corrupting and it wanted to sync all the time. I went back to Tarascon, which I haven’t used since medical school. I never remembered it being so thick.
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About Tarascon–
Wow, you are making me feel better about the new PDA I have sitting in its docking station, as yet unused! My nurse and I use an older Tarascon all the time, except with patients in exam rooms I often search “Dr Google” as I call it, usually going to”rxlist.com” (probably ought to go to that directly instead of searching Google, if all I want is drug info). This is an important issue. I think patients don’t mind my searching the Net in their presence, in fact some of them kinda like it.
“… If I made the rules I’d taser you and throw you back out on the street.”
Wow, Panda (fresh out of residency and, at the time of his post, first employed as a physician, and with his tongue perhaps only partially in his cheek) says so much in so few words about how the medical-industrial-complex has already shaped and convoluted his humanity amidst his evident loss of patience Welcome to the elite, Panda!
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