OK, Leslie... let me add my whine.

20 years ago, using a still currently available database engine, I built a program to manage test results from a small related company I started. I am no software engineer. It was not any "Amazing Journey". It was just me, getting up at 4:30 every morning for several months and chewing through a bunch of manuals. That same program is still in use. As of today, it has 107,400 test results linked to about 10,000 employees. I can access any test result on any employee and have it displayed before my finger has lifted from the "enter" key. I can easily create a new screen to show data from any of the 30 or so fields from each of the test, employee, or employer tables. So, I cannot for the life of me understand why it takes 20 seconds to display a lab test for one of 5,000 patients each of whom may have 20 lab tests, and it is impossible to see commonly used data from two or more tables simultaneously.

Yes, it could be worse. But compared to what is possible, AC is really a terrible database program.

And, sorry Sam for the mini-hijack. I'm not sure about your problem with Acrobat, the latest version seems to be working OK for me. Hopefully one of the wizards here will address this. Do you have more than one version on your computer? I had some issues when I installed the full paid version of Acrobat and AC got confused about which program to run.


David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands