Why do almost all doctors have HORRBILE handwriting?

Question

Why are doctors handwriting horrible and why they write in an UNRULED Letter Pad. How the medical shop members understand their handwriting?

Answer 1

is because in class there mind used to be fast therefore quick minded match with quick writing

Answer 2

Part of the handwriting issue is that medical school is so intense that taking notes very rapidly causes them to use shortcuts like not dotting 'i's or crossing 't's. Then it moves to not doing all the curves when writing an "ing" on a word and it eventually becomes a straight line. After a while, they get so used to scribbling everything that it just becomes a habit. Nurses who have to transcribe their orders always wish they would just SLOW DOWN.

But another BIG part of the handwriting issue, from a patient's standpoint, is that much of what they write is in a medical jargon based on abbreviations of LATIN words. For example:

Rx: Maalox iii tsp, PO QID, AC & HS

Even typed, unless you know the abbreviations, you'd never know that this means "take 3 teaspoons of Maalox by mouth, four times per day, before meals and at bedtime."

It's not just HOW they write, but also WHAT they write.

Answer 3

Hey good question, I've always wondered that myself. You deserve a star for that. I always that maybe they wanted to show how busy and important they are. If you notice the older the doctor, the worst the handwriting gets. No clue how they understand it at the medical shop. But it would be funny to go back to the doctor and tell him that the pharmacist didnt understand your writing, pls write neatly.

Answer 4

I think it's a basic impatience on the doctor's part. After years of studying, taking tests and taking down notes it sometimes seems that its tiring to write things down. I guess its just a form of laziness that must doctors believe they deserve to have.

In any case, not all doctors have bad handwriting. My wife is a doctor and she has very clear and readable hand writing.

As for the pharmacists who actually fill out prescriptions, and nurses who carry out written orders in patient's charts, they get used to it. I'm not sure though if they actually have classes to teach them how to decipher bad handwriting.

Answer 5

bcoz i think that they r too busy with the number of patients they need to diagnose a day and for which they hav to maintain their time constraint......Unruled pad so dat if dey need to draw for patients or medical shopkeepers comfort dey can.....and how dey understan bcoz dey deal with those most of the day that dey too learn little bit of medicines.......and why nt since after having a well command on pharmacy they get the jobs in the shop. But let me tell u nt only doctors bt other people also hav bad handwriting, so wat will u say for them !!! rather its the patients job to get them well clarified from the docs while they r prescribing the medcins........or to take sm contact number for future help...

Answer 6

I think it is because the work is so repetitive. Think about other people you know who have to fill out a lot of paperwork by hand, not computer. It just gets sloppy. I am sure the people who work with the doctors understand or ask the DR. My dad was a pharmacist and occasionally he had to call the Dr's office on Rx to make sure the instruction was clear.

Answer 7

That's what they teach you in med school. It is a specific course called Bad Handwriting. They all take it.

Answer 8

I dont know but i should have been a doctor casue i have bad handwritting. good thing we are moving to the digital age, lol.

Answer 9

because they have extra writing paintings than others . they see too many sufferers in an afternoon and writes a large number of drugs names in prescription , so as that they ought to do it quick . in the journey that they write slow it takes a lot time in which they cant attend extra sufferers , so as it really is why they're writing so quick yet finally it really is going to develop into practiced for them contained in the suitable .

Answer 10

I don't know but I've always had this theory that it's a class they take in med school. But I do know that pharmacists hate it when they get prescriptions they can't read, and often have to call to decipher it. That's why one of my doctors went to typed prescriptions.

Answer 11

It makes it very difficult to try to forge their signature.
If the medical shop (You must be in theUK)((Glad to see your queen come to Virginia)
has any questions he will call the doctor.