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Any opinions on Epocrates? It seems that nothing else gets close. I almost wish I could try it out for a month or so. What does anyone else use?
I'm a Medicine intern and everyone uses Epocrates. It's free so why bother looking for anything else?
Are you premed? If so, what exactly would you use epocrates for?
Ha. I read this and thought it said "EPO crates," and I was thinking...
"Wow. You and ******** Ricco... frickin' dopers and your crates of EPO..."
Why would I want to use it? When doing shadowing at the hospital I would like to be able to look information up in a quick and easy manner. Most of the time the docs are so busy that they don't explain much.
just got this app and it rules. yes i'm pre-med but i attend a lot of meetings and it helps if i have a quick, easy source to look up a mentioned drug, for example.
actually, do they show the mechanism by which the drug works??
you'll look like a major geek playing with a pda while shadowing. Just use your eyes and ears and learn. Your goal isn't to know the meds or the diseases or to learn medicine. There is time for that later. Your goal is to watch the doctors and what they do, their interaction with the patients, etc. You are trying to decide if this is what you want to with your life.
But as folks have mentioned, the drug database on epocrates is free to download. In terms of the other stuff (diagnoses) available on epocrates, when you get to med school, your school usually will get you a free subscription to use -- i wouldn't pay the subscription price on your own for the couple of times you might actually use it. Just take notes and jump on emedicine on the net when you get home, and look up whatever you feel important.
i use the online version.
lol me too. it was nice with the list of drugs of a certain class.I use wikipedia