“Doctors love their Apple products. Just walk into any hospital ward, and see the types of mobile devices we are using,” Iltifat Husain writes for MedPage Today. “At weekly Grand Rounds conferences, you see plenty of iPads in use. At physician meetings, the laptop of choice is often the Macbook Pro. The data back these anecdotal examples as well.”
“Doctors love their Apple products — and Steve Jobs was obviously an extension of these products, often cited as the singular force behind these products, and it’s why physicians who love his products mourn his passing,” Husain writes.
There are three specific reasons why:
1) Simplicity
2) Solid Build Quality
3) Uniformity
Husain writes, “A better user experience shouldn’t have to be manufactured by the end user. It should be manufactured by the device maker — something Jobs understood well. As he would often say, we want something that ‘just works.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James M. Gross” for the heads up.]