Christopher J Collins said: >The Macs were put in because the owner of >the practice likes Macs and was prepared to accept what appears to be a >second rate practice management system because of his bias towards Macs. I don't know what this practice was using, but there is no reason why a medical office using Macs has to settle for a second rate practice management program. There are several excellent ones for the Macintosh. Here is a partial list. (there are a bunch more that I have never gotten around to adding to this site): http://www.macattorney.com/medical.html Randy B. Singer Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions) OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html