My work place is about 25km from my house and it sometimes takes me an hour and a half to get there in peak traffic hours. I have purchased an ordinary camera case to protect my Palmtop from the dust associated with travel.
I prefer to take the Palmtop along with me wherever I go, especially during field surveys. It's easier to note down all the details associated with the patient or the health care facility. I use a Lotus spreadsheet to collect the data. Lotus macros help me go to the proper place in the spreadsheet, and avoid entering data in the wrong field. This saves hundreds of man-hours required to transcribe data from coded sheets to a desktop PC for editing purposes.
Presently I am developing a database of internal organ weights of normal healthy Indians for radiation protection purposes. HP Calc's Solver function lets me calculate complicated mathematical relationships between age, body mass, external body measurements, and the organ masses themselves. We have established normal limits for various organs and can use this data to identify normal versus abnormal groups.
S.C. Mehta New Delhi, INDIA