Do doctors really have bad penmanship or are they just lazy?
It’s called doctoring 101. Your personal script and signature should be extremely difficult to copy. I don’t recall which of my university courses I learned that in; however, I was encouraged to have a signature that was unique and difficult as hell to copy. Next: Any University student can tell you that their penmanship goes to hell after the first year. If you do not write fast, use abbreviations, or shorthand if you know it, you can not keep up with a lecture and you are likely to miss important information. Handwriting goes to hell, not necessarily because anyone at the University level wants it to but rather out of pure necessity. Some graduates need to clean up their penmanship for careers later in life, school teachers for example, others will clean it up depending on the circumstances. A doctor’s perscription is indeed a code between doctors and pharmacists. Ever see how fast a pharmacist can reach a doctor on a phone if he has a question? It is enough to make your head swim an
