Apple’s iconic smartphone has been known to win hearts and minds, but can it also save lives? Apparently it can, according to this story from NBC Miami.

American Dan Woolley of Colorado Springs was caught in the collapse of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince after the Haiti earthquake struck last week. He used a medical application he had downloaded and the light from his iPhone to diagnose and treat injuries to his foot and head, and to help prevent going into shock.

He also used the phone’s camera to map his surroundings and identify a safer location to await rescue, which followed 65 hours after the earthquake. Woolley is now recovering at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.

It’s an amazing story that underscores both Woolley’s resourcefulness and the transformative power of those handheld computers in our pockets — which can perhaps even have the power to save a life.

[via TUAW]

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