Posted by alexandra_k on May 11, 2005, at 1:56:35
In reply to Why do many doctors have such bad handwriting?, posted by Shy_Girl on May 11, 2005, at 0:39:49
> I was just looking over some notes doctors have written and noticed that they all have very bad handwriting.
Yes. They do.
>I can barely make out what it is they have written...
I have wondered if maybe that is the point...
To make precription forgery harder...
OTOH maybe it is to disguise their bad spelling ;-)>Why are doctors able to get away with this?
I had wondered whether it may be expected...
>Maybe doctors have a certain personality that gives this this trait? I think it is more likely they had to learn to write extremely fast during medical school. :-P Just a wild guess.
Hmm. Nobody writes faster than me. Well... Not many people anyway. I would be willing to bet on that.
> It's not fair...I wanna use illegable handwriting...but I can't, my work won't be graded if the TA's can't read it. :-PHeh heh. Yeah. I have learned to write both fast and legibly.
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