ePocrates Rx 4.0

Pros: Free, monthly updates, excellent drug information for professionals, small size
Cons: some competition with ePocket Pharmacopea

I've been using this for 3 years now (basically since near the end of third year medical school). I've stopped carrying my Pocket Pharmacopea now with the updates to epocrates. ePocrates qRx is a work in progress by a group of programmers, physicians,...

Pros: cost (free), ease of use, updated often, includes all essential information for ward use
Cons: no OTC meds, registration requires divulging personal data

Nowadays, it is extremely rare to find a product for the Palm OS that is free. Compared to LexiDrugs ($69) and Physican's Drug Handbook ($75.00)and the PDR (really expensive!), Epoqrates stands out because it is 100% FREE! Not to mention, that I find...

Pros: Practical, high degree of utility, Free
Cons: No pediatric dosing Completeness lacking as other drug books PDR, Physician's Handbook

Wonderful, easy to use program that can be easily updated
when hot synched to the computer. The program provides al alphabetized list of medications both in generic and brand name form. The program gives you the dosages of each medication as well...

Pros: Easy to use and free!
Cons: No Macintosh Autoupdate!

I recently got a Handspring Visor and immediately downloaded ePocrates qRx. As a resident physician, I find myself looking for "just in time" information when I have a question. I used to find this sort of information by carrying books in my white...

Pros: Free, fast, small, easy, reliable, up-to-date
Cons: None!

As a general practitioner, the most important subject for using a PDA software would be about patient. I could say that only drug dosage, indication and some serious warning would be enough. I've ever used Physician Drug Handbook (PDH) before and found...

Pros: FREE! Very detailed information dbase
Cons: Takes time initially to set up...

I was made aware of this software by one of my surgery attendings. He noticed during clinic that I had a PalmPilot, and he showed me on his PalmPilot how epocrates worked. I was quite amazed by the amount of detail this drug database contained. And, I...

Pros: Well organized, fast, free
Cons: times out

I've used Lexi drugs on another platform: Epocrates is clearly superior.

Layout:

The main screen allows alpha searches by name or class.

Each monograph is divided into adult dosing, pediatric dosing, contraindications,...

Pros: good software, updates available
Cons: painful download, slower even than microsoft

Although the epocrates software is quite nice, the updates and initial download are PAINFULLY slow. I can not really recommend this product to anyone who doesn't want to spend hours of time, than being dropped to start all over again. Have raised these issues with epocrates and they are unresponsive.