Entacapone

21 June 2008 in geekery, neurology | No comments

I gave a 5-minute presentation on the drug entacapone (Comtan) last month on the wards, and thought that the handout [PDF] I made might be useful to some other folks. It talks briefly about the drug’s mechanism of action, its pharmacokinetics, and its clinical utility. Most of the info came from a great review article that’s available free of cost online. You’re welcome to use this to guide your own research or to prepare a short talk; as always, don’t distribute it verbatim without crediting the author.

For all the geeks out there, I had to write this handout at the school’s computer lab, where the draconian sysadmin won’t install LaTeX. I ended up being forced to use Microsoft Word 2008 for the first time, and I was pleasantly surprised. I still think that word processors are misguided right out of the gate, but the latest version of Word is leagues ahead of its predecessors. It allows at least somewhat convenient logical markup, has reasonable default font combinations, and has reorganized the menus to be much more task-specific (writing, editing, footnoting, etc.). I still much prefer Vim and LaTeX’s ease of use and visually superior output, but the thought of writing in Word doesn’t make me cry anymore.

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