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ipad = a glorified toy

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matt90036

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sineplex said:
these really are just glorified toys for adults but people talk about them like theyr'e the holy grail.
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i have seen many people saying that ipad is just a toy. this really bothers me.
i am a medical student and i use my ipad when i go to class to quickly look up answers via iannotate and 4 pathology books that i have loaded on it. when i do prep questions for USMLE and i dont know something i quickly look it up again via iannotate and the USMLE First Aid book. When i dont know something about one of the few thousand drugs i use Micromedex. it gives me drug indications, side effects, dosage and i use Medscape for drug interactions. i have also loaded netters images onto my photo app to quickly help me with my anatomy, which is my weakest subject. once i get my hands on a 7 inch ipad i will be brining it for my rotations.



the biggest upside of an ipad over a laptop is its portability, reponsiveness and a variety of medical apps that allow you to get information access with one click of the finger. there are hospitals that allow docotrs to get patient information via ipads as well as their vital stats. it is a tremendous productivity tool when use as one.
 
Ha! There will always be haters. I love my iPad. I don't have to justify it to anyone.
 
well, I was about anti-ipad as they come.
then I got an ipad2.

It is a toy, it is a tool.

Airplay is amazing.

I would say it does about 75% of what I need.
It is what you make of it. I am glad I got one.
 
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People say I don't need my 4X4 truck cause I never haul anything
People say I don't need unlimited data on my iPhone cause I never go over
People say I shouldn't drink Diet Coke cause it is bad for me
People say I don't need an iPad cause I have a MBP and an iPhone
People say I shouldn't have a gym membership cause I never go

I don't particularly care what people say about what I buy or what I do
 
macdawg said:
people say i don't need my 4x4 truck cause i never haul anything
people say i don't need unlimited data on my iphone cause i never go over
people say i shouldn't drink diet coke cause it is bad for me
people say i don't need an ipad cause i have a mbp and an iphone
people say i shouldn't have a gym membership cause i never go

i don't particularly care what people say about what i buy or what i do
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+1 :)
 
matt90036 said:
i have seen many people saying that ipad is just a toy. this really bothers me.
i am a medical student and i use my ipad when i go to class to quickly look up answers via iannotate and 4 pathology books that i have loaded on it. when i do prep questions for USMLE and i dont know something i quickly look it up again via iannotate and the USMLE First Aid book. When i dont know something about one of the few thousand drugs i use Micromedex. it gives me drug indications, side effects, dosage and i use Medscape for drug interactions. i have also loaded netters images onto my photo app to quickly help me with my anatomy, which is my weakest subject. once i get my hands on a 7 inch ipad i will be brining it for my rotations.



the biggest upside of an ipad over a laptop is its portability, reponsiveness and a variety of medical apps that allow you to get information access with one click of the finger. there are hospitals that allow docotrs to get patient information via ipads as well as their vital stats. it is a tremendous productivity tool when use as one.
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Just to be devil's advocate as a fellow med student, you can do pretty much all of those things on a laptop as well. A smartphone is great for when you need the portability and it has all those great medical apps as well. When you're sitting at a desk and want to read, a laptop with access to the net has all the info you need.

Not saying the iPad isn't useful, I see it all over the place in the medical library, but I would say it's not particularly necessary (other devices that you have that ARE necessary perform the same function).

This is not an attack against the iPad, after all, I have one too :)
 
I run my life from my iPad.. No computer.

~90% of consumers can do 100% of what they need to do on computers with an iPad.
 
Yes it is an expensive toy... (So in fact is my dual screen iMac desktop, or my stereo system I do not actually need either of these things but I could afford them so I bought them)

But it is also the best media consumption device ever invented.

It also has the potential to become one of the the most useful pieces of technology ever invented.

I have already seen it used by a politician in parliament to read a speech from.

Newscasters use it instead of a screen.

Students use it as a book replacement.

I would not be surprised if NASA used it with astronauts to help with pre flight checks.

Sailors use it for navigation.

Some of us live in a very privileged position where the owning of gadgets or expensive toys if you will are a possibility, now I am not bragging or anything like that because I feel we should be very grateful for the possibility that we can acquire such things.

However lets not fool ourselves, every thing we own from the car we drive to the clothes we wear are all privileges of luxury. Many people in this world do not even have food to eat, this should be our main concern, we should not be arguing over whether or not a piece of equipment is actually a toy or not...

Stuff gets invented, great lets find ways to use it to help other people or just sit back and play angry birds the choice is yours.
 
MacDawg said:
People say I don't need my 4X4 truck cause I never haul anything
People say I don't need unlimited data on my iPhone cause I never go over
People say I shouldn't drink Diet Coke cause it is bad for me
People say I don't need an iPad cause I have a MBP and an iPhone
People say I shouldn't have a gym membership cause I never go

I don't particularly care what people say about what I buy or what I do
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^ this.
 
matt90036 said:
i have seen many people saying that ipad is just a toy. this really bothers me.
i am a medical student and i use my ipad when i go to class to quickly look up answers via iannotate and 4 pathology books that i have loaded on it. when i do prep questions for USMLE and i dont know something i quickly look it up again via iannotate and the USMLE First Aid book. When i dont know something about one of the few thousand drugs i use Micromedex. it gives me drug indications, side effects, dosage and i use Medscape for drug interactions. i have also loaded netters images onto my photo app to quickly help me with my anatomy, which is my weakest subject. once i get my hands on a 7 inch ipad i will be brining it for my rotations.



the biggest upside of an ipad over a laptop is its portability, reponsiveness and a variety of medical apps that allow you to get information access with one click of the finger. there are hospitals that allow docotrs to get patient information via ipads as well as their vital stats. it is a tremendous productivity tool when use as one.
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I love, love, love my iPad. :)
I use it mainly for the many textbooks that I was able to download onto it. Thank goodness for that because each book weighs about 10 lbs or more, talking to you Person's Anatomy!!!

OP, have you seen UC Irvine's med school went to a completely iPad friendly curriculum? All text books trough Inkling, note taking apps and initial iPads were provided during the white coat ceremony. :) So awesome!!!
 
To me it a tool because of the basic fact that i can keep track of diff task in my life along beening my all around outside the house device to use for email and surfing the net and listening to music and playing games and not have to carry a heavy laptop around to do those task in my life ..
 
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