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Re: the new Harriet

In a message dated 10/7/1999 9:23:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
 writes:

>  I still look
>  at it now and again - for some reason I can never remember the dose of
>  racemic epinephrine and the dose of metronidazole for giardiasis and the
>  body surface nomogram is handy.

I use my Palm Pilot for these things now.  I have a memo section dedicated to
medications, and any time I have to look something up that I want to
remember, I enter it into the Pilot.  Next time I need it, it's right there
in my pocket.  It's smaller than the Harriet Lane, and customizable, too.  I
even have a spreadsheet in it that calculates medicine doses for the common
things I prescribe, and it also calculates surface area, BMI, and iv fluid
rates for maintenance and dehydration.  I entered the formulas, and now I
just plug in the weight and other data needed, and it does the rest.

> My first Harriet was light blue...what was
>  yours?

Mine was red.

Moshe Adler, MD