Drake & Drake

I have never been a fan of the QLDB. I just have never found it to have all the drugs I can find in Drake & Drake although I think it has much better info about the drugs. I have the 2007 Drake and Drake book and CD.  I guess I bought both because I knew sometimes electronic things can be slow and I just like to have a book sometimes.  I'm glad I did because the electronic version is so slow I can wait for a minute or two, then pick up the book and still beat it.  It's nice to have something electronic so I can search by wildcard or keyword, and it does have a sounds-like search.  But I really can't recommend the Drake & Drake.  It hangs up something awful.  It doesn't play well with Windows - it takes up your full screen so you can't see your taskbar while it's your active window, and you can't tile and drag it, only maximize or minimize. 

One tip for anyone having trouble searching the D&D with wild cards: Sometimes they stick arbitrary descriptive terms after the drug name, like "Azopt eye drops" (just a made-up example) so if you search for *zopt, it won't come up with it - you would have had to search for *zopt eye drops, or *zopt*.  That's not even a good example because it halfway makes sense - there are some in there that are truly bizarre.  And you can't ever know if they styled something "eyedrops" or "eye drops."  I've made it a habit to stick another wildcard at the end of everything I search for to account for these types of entries.  They might even affect whether the sound-alike search will return the right choices, I am not sure about that.  But it takes a lot of fooling with to find something sometimes, and as slow as it is, it can really be a major timewaster.

Just on a personal note it annoys the cr@p out of me that it opens up to a kind of welcome page where you always have to click "Enter" to get started.  I can't think of a more idiotic feature to put on something made for professionals for whom time and step-saving is of the essence.

I have used the electronic QL in the past and technically speaking it is light years ahead, but like I said, I just don't find it has the entries that I need. Maybe with that plus the internet as a supplement you might not have to go to the internet very often.

• I'm thinking about buying Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book 2007 on CD/ROM...sm.. - Diane in VA
  • Drake & Drake - katemt
  • I have the QLB and love it. Was thinking of - me
    • I'm sticking with QLDB then. Thanks. - OP

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I had this in the past and loved it, but now I don't seem to find it.  Do they not make this any longer? If not, what seems to be a good replacement that you use?  I need to update my reference books.

Thanks.

Ellen Drake is putting out a version of Saunders Pharmaceutical on a CD later this year.  Why not wait and get something that does not have the licensing hassles that the Stedman's version has?  It's about time that we MTs stopped supporting companies that make it difficult to deal with installing software on our computers after a crash, or make it difficult for us to use software on multiple computers.  Some of us have laptops, a computer in our home office, AND a computer in the bedroom.  We should not have to call the software vendor to get a code every time we have a crash or upgrade a drive.