| The Practical Doctor
''My desire to practice medicine is selfish, actually,'' reflects Dr. Michael Marlow of The Woodlands, Texas. ''When I was thirteen, an automobile accident sent me to a hospital for ten days with a serious fracture. I remember how warmly I felt towards the folks that took care of me. I decided, somewhere along the way, that I wanted people to feel that way about me. I wanted to play that role in other people's lives — not only helping them physically, but helping them emotionally — as healer, advisor, consultant, friend.''
Though he majored in English literature as an undergraduate, that formative experience eventually lured him to medical school — and the recent establishment of his own family practice, with a sideline in emergency medicine. ''But my passions for science and the humanities have always co-existed,'' he says — and provided fuel for both fulfillment and frustration as a doctor. ''It's very rewarding for me to use my training and my humanitarian interests to help people. It’s worth all the headaches, all the ongoing hassle. But yes, there’s a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of paperwork.''
Like a growing number of small practitioners around the country, Dr. Marlow has found a cure for that complexity — in the intuitive ease of Macintosh technology. ''If you look at what doctors really use a computer for, Macs can do it all. But, unlike the Windows systems so prevalent in my profession, it does it in a very elegant and enjoyable fashion.
''In a nutshell, the Mac empowers me to be more the type of physician that I want to be. A physician who focuses on his patients, not on all the other necessary work that goes along with their visits.''
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Rich
in Function
SpringCharts is designed from the ground up to deliver the features
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of care.
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and Easy to Use
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to
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SpringCharts is priced thousands less than
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