Here's an interesting story about some medical software that works with Wine and CrossOver Office: http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1112336432/index_html
quote: "He finally succeeded in running the CPRS client on Linux with only a few problems. Previous releases of WINE could not run the client at all, but last fall things started to improve when William Wong, a colleague from Malaysia's PCDOM organization, was able to launch CPRS for the first time using WINE. According to Joseph Dal Molin: 'Something changed under the covers of WINE that made it possible. A few releases ago, this did not work. Now it does.'
scary statistic: " As many as 98,000 people die each year as a result of preventable medical errors"
-Brian