Cardiology in the 21st Century. Is PDA an Indispensable Tool for the Practice?

The current advance of medicine and the need to continuously keep pace with new medical developments have led to the use of technologies compatible with these discoveries. Medical doctors can be classifi ed into three categories with regards to their ability to use such technologies. The fi rst group includes physicians who acquired the knowledge mainly based on previous personal experience. However, medical literature lacks suffi cient reports about this because of limitations in technology and also because the access to information was either the privilege of only a few professionals or it was diffi cult to attain. The second group, in which I am included, consists of those professionals who considered computers mainly as time-saving devices to perform repeated tasks. And, fi nally