Reading this issue's medical professional profiles reminded me of the awesome commitment and responsibility physicians and other health workers assume. When you read these profiles and medical product offerings, you'll see that the HP Palmtop can save lives as well as make a tremendous contribution to the health field.
Ultimately, our health is our own responsibility, not our physician's -preventing illness is less expensive and painful then curing it. In this issue you'll read about ways to use the HP Palmtop as a tool for you to maintain good health. You'll see how to use the Palmtop to monitor the food you eat, to schedule your exercise program, and even to test the radioactivity of your environment.
In my User to User column you'll find a discussion that might improve your mental health. I describe the time management paradigm and techniques described in Steven Covey's best sellers 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and First Things First. I then show how to concretely apply Dr. Covey's ideas using the HP Palmtop.
In a further attempt to assist with your mental health, Mark Scardina writes of the many "gotchas" encountered when attempting to use the HP Palmtop serial port, and how to work around them. We added to Mark's article a dense, concise, ready-reference page of HP Palmtop serial port advice. On the page you'll find the information you need to get your HP Palmtop to print, to attach to a modem, and to transfer files to a desktop computer. Finally, Ed Keefe teaches us about the sanity of using RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) in HP Calc. Letters, tips, and advertisement round out this packed issue.
Thanks goes to the many health professionals and health product vendors with the foresight to use the HP Palmtop as a tool in their mission to provide us with the best possible health care.