In a book some critics have called "The Animal Farm of the AIDS era", Charles Ortleb takes a comic look at the AIDS establishment and the effect of the HIV-AIDS theory on gay life in the nineties in Iron Peter, a satirical novel.

Peter, a beautiful young man who arrives in New York City fresh out of college, is determined to "assassinate" the AIDS epidemic. In the course of his research efforts in both the library and the real-life of bars, he realizes that the AIDS scientists, the AIDS activists, and the entire AIDS establishment are hooked on a false theory that HIV=AIDS; that theory is leading them nowhere. To make matters worse, the AIDS scientists, in league with the pharmaceutical companies, are prescribing highly toxic drugs (AZT, DDI, etc.) to AIDS patients, thus adding thousands of unnecessary deaths to the epidemic. When Peter meets a renegade heiress whose peak experiences were Woodstock and Watergate, the gay and the (sort of) straight world are united in a crusade to expose this AIDSgate scandal to the world. Published by Electron Press, Inc, Iron Peter is available in Palm device-ready Doc format

Medical references
Few subjects have received the degree of attention in the handheld community as medicine and health have. Several Web sites exist that are entirely devoted to the use of handheld devices in medical practice, and a large number of physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals have created an ever-growing number of health-related documents in Palm device-compatible formats. The following are but a small sample of this abundance.

For the layperson (i.e. non-physician), many health-related documents exist. For example, a Doc-format listing of essential vitamins and minerals, as well as their sources and properties, has been assembled by R. Jones. Jim Thompson created a listing of common hand injuries in a plain text file, and a plain text guide to common pills for pain control was created by J. Leonardelli. Mary Jo Sminkey has created some extremely handy First Aid & CPR references, and these are available in Doc format.

So, the next time you twist your ankle after stepping on that rusty nail while running away from the poisonous snake that just bit you, make sure you have your Palm Connected Organizer handy. Even if you don't have one of these documents loaded on it, you can always flash out an SOS with your backlight.

For physicians who depend on highly technical information to do their job, there's a virtual cornucopia of references available. Tim Warner has created a number of medical references, including a Nursing Diagnoses Guide and a "Quick and Dirty Drug Book", both in Doc format. Jim Thompson has also created both Doc and plain text versions of his DSM-IV Axes reference document. Listings for the ICD-9 Psychological Coding System have been created by a number of Palm device owners and are primarily available in Doc format. Finally, the Hippocratic Oath represents the essence of medicine for many physicians, and is named after the Greek physician, Hippocrates the Great, who lived around 1250 B.C. It is available in text format.