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This app changed my practice: My Fitness Pal

By Dr. Marisa Collins on January 8, 2013

Achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight is an important objective for patients and physicians alike. Just in time for New Year’s resolutions, here’s an app to recommend to your patients and, perhaps, to make use of yourself.

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Dropbox app article by Dr. Steve Wong for TCMP

This app changed my practice: Dropbox

By Dr. Steve Wong on May 28, 2012

Like many physicians, for many years now, I’ve been using electronic-only copies of journal articles (pdf files) for my own continuing education, reference and teaching purposes. Now, I have an easy way to organize and access documents.

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