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iBook helps safeguard fetus
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
September 25th 2002
A pregnant woman who fell at an airport got an instant check up thanks to a Mac
solution
Macworld UK reports that a Dr Emanual carried out an emergency ultrasound scan with
his 600MHz iBook and a SonoSite 180 handheld scanner on a pregnant woman who fell at
Luton Airport near London -- safeguarding her unborn baby's welfare.
The good doctor is quoted as saying, "These devices [scanners] have AV outputs that
pick up analogue or digital signals. It's a matter of taking the signal out of the
machine and putting it on to your desktop. You don't need a graphics card: the unit
produces signals and you run them through a Formac box -- which then runs straight
onto the Mac.
"It�s an additional service for my patients. If I want to get another opinion on an
image of a baby, I�ll send an MPEG movie in QuickTime along a phone line anywhere in
the world within minutes."
According to Macworld UK, Dr Emanuel runs a Belfast practice using an old Power Mac
8500 in reception and the iBook. These two pieces of networked equipment store a
medical database for examination, investigation, diagnosis and treatment records.
"Macs are intuitive -- they're easy to use. With PCs, there's a lot of unnecessary
computer literacy because of the difficulty with the operating system. Macs are far
more versatile and they've got a wider range of applications," the Mac-loving
physician said.
Editor's note: You said it brother.
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