If you have ever broken a bone or ended up in a hospital emergency room for some other reason, you know that the whole experience is one you would rather forget. Pain, confusion, and fear are all too common, and getting treated for a disease or longer-term condition is not much better. Frankly, going to the hospital to get any part of you fixed is scary.

What if there was a way for you to understand more easily exactly what was happening to you? If you removed the uncertainty, could it be less scary? If knowledge is one of the greatest ways to fight fear, then a company named Pocket Anatomy may have a solution.

They are the makers of what has recently been the most-downloaded new medical app in the iTunes store, an intriguing app called the Pocket Body. Its functionality is relatively simple--it lets you look at any bone, muscle, vein and body part in your body. You can zoom in, rotate, get the medical name for it and even see it in a 3-D color view.

Imagine if your doctor used something like this to explain a treatment or surgery to you before you had it. A broken leg would still hurt, but knowing exactly what needs to be done to fix it could help with the fear. There are many other medical applications of the Pocket Body--and to the team at Pocket Anatomy, for helping to make medical issues easier to understand for the non-medical among us, you're Character Approved. Now we're just waiting for you to invent an app to make that broken bone hurt less.

[Image: Pocket Anatomy]