Portable instructional device

A portable instructional device for communicating medically relevant information to a patient on-premises during the course of treating, diagnosing or preventing disease, symptoms, or conditions thereof, said instructional device comprising:

• a display portion comprising a touch sensitive surface having at least one activation area operable by the patient;
• a memory for storing at least one portion of the medically relevant information wherein each of the at least one portion of the medically relevant information is associated with a particular activation area;
• an audio assembly connected to said memory for producing sound, said audio assembly adapted for receiving a selected portion of the medically relevant information from the memory corresponding to the activation area triggered by the patient to convert the medically relevant information into audio form;
• a wireless radio receiver adapted for receiving a paging signal from an external page transmitter;
• and
• an alert mechanism connected to said wireless radio receiver for alerting the patient that a paging signal has been received.