We're not doctors and we don't even play doctors on TV. In fact, we both go faint at the sight of blood. However, lack of professional experience, training, and general common sense never stopped us before. So it is with just such aplomb and a complete lack of formal knowledge that we dissect some of the vast medical and disease-related resources available to Windows CE owners.

Medicine in literature
Throughout history, the foundation of society has been altered time and time again by the devastation of disease and the prevailing conditions of medical knowledge. Man's inability to permanently remove himself as a consumable on the display shelves of the food chain has given many writers meat for thought and the foundation for some great works of literature.

The Journal of the Plague Year
Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague. You have to respect an organism that could so radically redefine the course of European civilization. Empires, fell, economies collapsed, millions perished -- all because of a determined bacterium. For Daniel Defoe, Y. Pestis proved too tempting a character study to ignore.

Set in 1665, Journal of the Plague Year is a fictionalized telling of a summer outbreak of the plague in bustling London. Defoe, considered by many to be one of the first British novelists, managed the difficult task of maintaining the truthful elements of fact and the compelling line of fiction. Though clearly a fictional work, Defoe artfully manages a unique telling of the epidemiology of an outbreak.