An extra day off per month!

More than an extra day a month! If you read through the web release that follows from Epocrates, you will see that by using their system, clinicians can save up to 30 minutes a day. At 5 days per week, 4 weeks per month, that comes to a total of 10 hours, or more than a day! Awesome! I could use more time off. This unfortunately isn’t much help for life drawing models.

Here is the weird thing. You know how you can never read the prescriptions that doctors write? Well even if you could, it probably wouldn’t help. Have a look at this entry for Biaxin! Can you understand any of it?

Web Release From Epocrates

Epocrates Introduces Free, Web-based Drug and Health Plan Formulary Product Leading Developer of Mobile Applications Provides New Online Service for Healthcare Professionals Epocrates Inc. announced today that clinicians and support staff can now access an online version of its free and trusted mobile drug and formulary guide, used by more than 500,000 healthcare professionals. Epocrates Online provides clinicians with access to critical information about more than 3,300 drugs, including dosing, pricing, potential drug interactions and Medicare Part D formulary coverage from any computer with an Internet connection. “I’ve been using Epocrates products on my PDA for years and find them indispensable to my practice. I think it is wonderful that my colleagues and staff that don’t yet use a PDA can now access the same information online to help them improve patient care,