“I have probably cried closer to a quarter as many times in a week.”
pandaprincessThird-year medical student · Product Hunt
INSANELY responsive developer!! Will expand on this in the points below, since the features I LOVE tie into how responsive the developer is.
I'm currently a medical student who has started clinical rotations, so it is not only learning a lot of names of conditions, drugs and therapeutics on the fly. All of the drugs have both a brand name and a generic name, and on top of that every professional who uses the electronic medical record to write their notes uses abbreviations for the conditions, drugs and procedures.
Through mostly a variety of brainstorming / whining sessions (on my part):
I mentioned that having Leafy reference MY personal list of words and phrases first when scanning would be incredible, since medical abbreviations can mean other things in other contexts (example: SOB should be “shortness of breath”, not “son of a…” anyway). I think within 5 days the next update included that feature.
I mentioned the new feature was working perfectly, but that it might take me a while to build my vocab list in Leafy, and that there was no easy way to import everything I already had in my Anki deck (Anki is the flashcard app most med students rely on). Now the current version has an Anki integration, so with the settings adjusted, scanned words reference YOUR vocab list and/or YOUR Anki deck first, and if you don't have a card for it YOU CAN ADD IT DIRECTLY TO ANKI FROM WITHIN LEAFY.
The fact that this all happens inside the Leafy popup has made reading other providers' notes on the EMR SO much less stressful. Being able to translate a summary statement like “78M hx HTN, HLD, CAD s/p CABG and multiple PCIs, CKD3 transferred from OSH after 2 episodes of right sided vision loss and imaging demonstrating severe stenosis of L ICA” without leaving the screen is SUCH A GAME CHANGER.
I actually cannot rave enough about this app. The 3rd year of medical school is known to induce a good amount of crying from students, just from the sheer volume of information you need to process while studying and while helping care for patients. I have probably cried closer to a quarter as many times in a week, just from the time and frustration saved having an easier time referencing the terms I need, and it is making it 1000x faster for me to actually learn them.
