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One of the great ironies of our age is that many of us carry in our pockets a portal to the collected wisdom of mankind, but use it mainly to look at adorable kitten videos. For clinicians, the smartphone is a godsend, a handheld wonder that crams wheelbarrows full of manuals and even some simple diagnostic tools into a small package measuring about 7 cm x 13 cm. Whether it’s an Android, Blackberry, or iwhatever, that phone or tablet you carry around with you grants you nearly instant access to the National Library of Medicine, Food and Drug Administration, National Cancer Institute, US Pharmacopeia, and hundreds of other sites of direct and indirect relevance to your practice. Even better, there are thousands of apps, both paid-for and free, that have been designed to make challenging work lives a little easier...

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One of the great ironies of our age is that many of us carry in our pockets a portal to the collected wisdom of mankind, but use it mainly to look at adorable kitten videos. For clinicians, the smartphone is a godsend, a handheld wonder that crams wheelbarrows full of manuals and even some simple diagnostic tools into a small package measuring about 7 cm x 13 cm. Whether it’s an Android, Blackberry, or iwhatever, that phone or tablet you carry around with you grants you nearly instant access to the National Library of Medicine, Food and Drug Administration, National Cancer Institute, US Pharmacopeia, and hundreds of other sites of direct and indirect relevance to your practice. Even better, there are thousands of apps, both paid-for and free, that have been designed to make challenging work lives a little easier...

*Click on the link to the left of this introduction for a PDF of the full article.

One of the great ironies of our age is that many of us carry in our pockets a portal to the collected wisdom of mankind, but use it mainly to look at adorable kitten videos. For clinicians, the smartphone is a godsend, a handheld wonder that crams wheelbarrows full of manuals and even some simple diagnostic tools into a small package measuring about 7 cm x 13 cm. Whether it’s an Android, Blackberry, or iwhatever, that phone or tablet you carry around with you grants you nearly instant access to the National Library of Medicine, Food and Drug Administration, National Cancer Institute, US Pharmacopeia, and hundreds of other sites of direct and indirect relevance to your practice. Even better, there are thousands of apps, both paid-for and free, that have been designed to make challenging work lives a little easier...

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