I have a doctor friend who swears that her previously tidy, neat handwriting has gone downhill ever since she obtained her medical license. And I cannot — for the life of me — ever remember receiving a prescription that was decipherable.
Perhaps the AMA makes chicken scratch handwriting a requirement? 😛
Via A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor.
P.S. — For an example of how a doctor’s bad handwriting made me the laughingstock of my then-office, take a look at this post from 4 years ago.
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My husband said when he was in medical school, he was under such pressure to take notes so quickly (and then the same with singing charts as a resdident) that you really have no choice but to turn to chicken-scratch writing. Of course, now that more and more hospitals are turning to an electronic format, handwriting becomes less of an issue.
This is great! My mom is a doctor and hers is definitely the “teeny tiny” script haha 🙂
Too funny. My husband is a chiropractor and has terrible writing. I remember asking him, which came first? Did you have terrible penmenship, so figured you should be a doctor, or did your penmenship become terrible in chiropractic school? Haha.
Funny. I am a doctor and I can read most of the above! I do try to print nicely for prescriptions though.
I have type 7 (illegible) luckily this is why phone dictation systems and electronic medical records (with typed notes) and electronic prescription filling was invented!
It’s strange I can read all other Doctors handwriting but I cannot read my own 🙂
I need to amend >all other Doctors hand writing< I am not a medical Doctor but a psychoanalyst