Why Doctors Have Bad Handwriting! - Real Doctor Explains
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- One of the most common stereotypes is that doctors have bad handwriting. But how does this happen? How do doctors get through so many years of schooling, yet still have illegible handwriting? Here's my take on why doctors have such bad handwriting and what can be done about it.
Reason 1: Quantity
- Doctors have to write out hundreds of pieces of documentation each day. What better way to save time than to write a bit quicker?
Reason 2: Short form
- For the untrained eye, doctor's handwriting may look like scribble because it often contains many short forms and contracted sentences.
Reason 3: Deterioration
- As time goes on, the sheer volume of handwritten notes and persisting time pressure leads to gradual deterioration in the quality of handwriting
Reason 4: Visibility
- One the main reasons for the stereotype is that Doctor's handwriting is incredibly visible. Everybody can see it from patients to other doctors, and people care because if a doctor has bad handwriting, it has some real consequences. So once the impression is formed that doctors have bad handwriting, the stereotype is confirmed every time you see a doctor with bad handwriting.
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Legibility of doctors' handwriting is as good (or bad) as everyone else's: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
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This episode was filmed at Port Dickson in Malaysia. Got a question? Let me know!
Another thing I'm interested to know....is there a way for a layperson to tell whether an infection is viral or bacterial? Doctors in my country dispense antibiotics quite freely and I'm worried about developing antibiotic resistance.
This is an excellent question which I think deserves its own video. Would you be happy for me to highlight your question in that video? If you wish to remain anonymous, I can blur out your name.
@@DocUnlock no problem revealing my name
Haha, do you, like everyone else, pretend they are muslim there?
Heh thanks for visit our country
My teacher told me that I wrote like a doctor and I took that as a compliment. Now realizing how doctors write makes me doubt that it was a compliment.
Lol! I can just imagine your teacher scratching his/her head wondering why you couldn't take the hint!
My teacher called one of my classmates we thought it was a compliment lol
oof
Same here brother
I thought my teacher meant I was smart too, now I understand that she was trying to tell me my handwriting was shit
I always thought that doctor handwriting is like some sort of secret handwriting that only readable for the pharmacist
Once I asked my doctor to rewrite the prescription because the pharmacist could not read the medicine name. And the doctor has to stop for a few second to reconize what he had writen :D
A classic example of bad handwriting! :D
🤣🤣
*recognise
@@jokeyboy1450 that is not nice
Haha ha i m pharmacist and i cn relate
Nobody:
Guy everytime he finishes a sentence: *Sit down, stand up, move left, move right, look up, look to the left, squat, sit at stairs, stand up again*
got the whole tour too
I had bad handwriting since childhood and today M a doctor!🤘😂
Lmfao😂😂
Same here
Should i become a doctor too?
Mee i had bad writing HAHA
@@KatsuisCooking yea man it’s good as an profession
After every part of speaking...
*"ight imma head out"*
Adios
LMAO
HAHAHHAHA
For new comers it looks like he's flexing his mansion
I am an experienced pharmacist and i have to tell you we are very displeased with doctors handwriting, we have alot of writing and report as well and just the same and even more impatient patients, that s not an excuse. Writing four medication on a prescription doesn’t take that much time to write like an educated human and not like a baboon.
Sincerely
Your pharmacist
My doctors handwriting is just a line with bumps
Time to bring typewriters back
Yes, definitely yes.
Fully agree. I recently looked back at my study notes from second year med school in 2001. And compared it to my writing as a consultant in 2020. The degradation - was worse than that of a Parkinson's patient... And great analysis of the problem in the video btw!
You did it again, DocUnlock! You answered a question I've always wondered about but had no chance to ask. I thought doctors wrote badly on purpose to prevent their patients from reading what they've written, especially referral letters! By the way, your videography techniques are getting more impressive!
I'm glad I could answer a question that has been on your mind. Believe me, if you can't read the referral letter, it is highly unlikely that someone else can! Fortunately handwritten referral letters are much less common in clinics these days but I have had situations in hospital where I've had to call a colleague because I just couldn't decipher their writing.
Oh I had a bad experience, my father is a doctor and of course he has bad handwriting! I remember in 3rd grade we had a class test and after we got the result, we had to get it signed by our parent and submit it back to the teacher. I normally tell my mother to sign but she had gone out that day so I asked my father to sign it. The next day TEACHER SCOLDED ME SO MUCH! She told me I was lying and faking signature in front of the whole class and humiliated me! I kept saying that it was my fathers hand but she wouldn’t believe me. I still remember she told me “No educated man can write like this, stop putting blame on your father” and the absurd thing was I had full score on the test so why would I even lie☹️🥺
What happened when your teacher later on had a meeting with your dad?
Bad teacher🥺
Why do teachers feel the need to be assholes all the time, they literally go after people in the name of “education”
Give people a millimeter of power and they immediately go insane with it.
I always thought the bad handwriting was entirely on purpose to make it difficult to forge as possible.
It even got to the point where people think the worst your handwriting is the better doctor you are.
I grew up in the 1950s and went to a Catholic grade school. The nuns taught us both print and cursive writing, and we even used pens and inkwells for our practice. My handwriting is still very legible thanks to their insistance on good writing. Damn shame that kids don't learn that now.
I work in histology and have to decipher doctors' handwritten clinical notes to dictate in my surgical descriptions, and still find it almost impossible sometimes to put down something that ain't gibberish. Any tips on how to be better at this?
When i was younger the doctor told me its a special short hand they learned and the pharmancy reads to distinguish legit written pharmacy prescriptions from a doctor and if was written legibly denotes a forge prescription , tho nowadays you think they just use a electric card method that the patient can just take to a pharmacy and the pharmacy can pull the prescription from the encrypted electronic card data intheir own terminal to show exactly what the prescription was , than no more special training for pharmacy to read the illegible
"Why take 5 seconds to sign something when you can do it in 5 milliseconds"
I'm more like, who tf signs something that long
Stop moving
My teacher asked me if I wanted to be a doctor because of my handwriting. I answered him that I'm not, but look I am now, taking a medical course and wanting to be a doctor. LOL!😂
I heard this story for very long times, and I do have this experience before,when i get medicine from government clinic. Feel sorry for the doctors who keeps us always in helping hands. Thanks doc,..we love you all.🌹✨🎇🌷💐💝
Next video: why do doctors always move around
My dad is a doctor in his 60's his writing is so bad always his patients go to the nurse after they finish so she will read what he wrote
😁😁😁😁😁🤗
I've heard that people that have terrible hand writing are really smart
Thank you
Nah, that's just their excuse!
@@Me-lb8ndlmao fr
AHHHHH that is why i have so bad handwriting no wonder I am a medical student
Your videos are amazing :)
do a segment on pre-workouts please
Lol, I actually figured it was Malaysia the moment I saw the scenery. You hardly find a scene like this in Aus and was wondering if it was Avillion Resort PD. lolz
Spot on! :)
How many pools do doctors HAVE.
🤣😂😅😂😅🤣😂
I thought only my doctor had indecipherable handwriting until I saw it was a meme on the internet. I don't know how the pharmacy staff are able to read his prescriptions.
There are some Doctors Who have a private practice and only practices there. They do not practice at clinics or hospitals apart from their own private practice, so what is the excuse for their bad hand writing?😢
Given of all the reasoning you said,the question is, is it ethical or morally correct to confused the patient and the pharmacist with your handwriting just to make things easier for you(doctors)? ...completely ignoring the fact that miscomprehension with your prescription could be fatal.
I agree! Bad handwriting is not something to be proud of. That's why at the end of my video I talk about some strategies to combat the problem so that bad handwriting doesn't cause harm
It’s like trying to decipher ancient mesopitopian Tablets
And you wonder why they are so many malpractice suits. Prescriptions should be legible.
A patient cured is a customer lost
tl;dr god do you have any idea how often they have to write stuff like departures, tests, diagnosis, prescriptions, or procedures?
Yup it's digital now in my hometown...but funny thing is doctors at the hospital are rushing around with a trolley setup of laptop, battery and folders or medical stuff in tow.
Now doctors need to learn to type faster using all ten fingers and without looking at the keyboard.
I was writing notes in class when my friend turned around, looked at me, looked at my notes and then said: "that's docter's handwriting" and turned back around. Well, guess who she takes notes from because she's too busy making her notes all pretty 🤷♀️
Any apps to correct their handwriting !?
Eyebrows took a bit too much sharpie today
Jacob Keppler 😂☠️☠️☠️ VIOLATION
Thanks.... Plz do more videos like this.. 👍
Yes more videos coming up soon! Thanks for your support :)
did i just saw this guy writing with mouse?
*finally now i can die in peace*
_Beautiful places tho_
My handwriting when only 10 minutes of the exam left be like:
I thought that they do that so that regular people cant read what medicine you have like for privacy
Maybe that's why it takes forever at pharmacist..they're all in the back trying to deciphe and translate like Sherlock Holmes a
🙄😬 do we just have the same shortcut signature... Except that i added a vertical line
I have doctor's handwriting but am an engineer 🤔
Will the society accept me 🥺
No
I'm a architect with bad handwriting does that counts
Thank you sir :)
I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)
I wonder if a McDonald's type picture menu would be efficient for filling out charts?
K now explain why they push so much opioid
Ah yes, my parents are doctors and surgeons and they have been judging my handwriting sucked
my doctor gave up on writing and now he just prints
It’s not like telling about Dr it’s like showing their house tour😅
I always thought it was to prevent fraudulent prescriptions or something
My handwriting depends on the situation. If I’m writing to myself it is scribble, sometimes symbols. If I know it is going to be read I write legible but very rarely do I use my precise font style writing- I can- it just takes much longer
I thought there was actually a meaning behind it too. Like that one Twitter post said.
They just want the patient to die
More patient , more money.
Doctors mindset
Damn that koi pond🔥🔥🔥
Not a doctor, I want to be an architect, and my school last year pulled a sneak on me, never told me anything and suddenly awarded me for the worst handwriting in the school, my handwriting becane as it is because of getting new homework constantly, most are english essays and public speech scripts
Maybe think of your handwriting as an architectural project and it will get better
Everyone told me that I have bad handwriting they made me sad. But actually I'm very good at touch typing lol
Yes, I am actually one of the fastest typers in my class but my handwriting is atrocious, haha.
Teacher: UR homework is correct but It took 2000 years to read
Me: I do like what my dad does
I am a nurse and in corporate or private hospitals I seen nurses have more documentation work than doctors
I'm a physical therapist and even I have plenty of stuff to sign everyday so I'm in the same boat. My signature has gotten sloppier in the last 2 yrs.
Good info
Him: here’s my signature everyone! Lol
I am a medical student, graduating next year. I am very feminine except for 1 area 😂😂😂 I can't even read my own handwriting sometimes 😭. it started good in first year, it went downhill after 3rd year 😂
2:00 ... this time i decided to bounce around of that .........instead of it bouncing out through my head..😂😂😂
Me who has a bad handwriting since elementary: guess ill be a doctor ¯\_(🤨)_/¯
In simple words: They need to fast
I thought they wrote like that on purpose to make us remember they they say in our prescription without having to refer to it.
So I should give 5$ tip to doctors for good writing before doctor will write.
Its not a bad handwriting actually its a really really good and beautiful handwriting! Can my handwriting be like that god?
Lite ya mobile
his pool is so blue
The stethoscope is to hear heartbeats... That's so simple!
TL;DR: extreme time pressure and high volume is to blame
99.9 of my doctors have a TERRIBLE handwritting
Great video wow nice
2:53. Your swimming pool water is very very blue
WOAAGHHHHHHDHHD
That's language of gods
Reliable indeed 🙌 Cyber Credible
Ye, now I understand why my Hospital Computerized prescriptions
Nailed it
That moment when the doctor gives you hand-written prescriptions and you pretend to understand everything.
@Tikky wow how did you find my comment? I haven’t even got many likes likes. 😄
Why can't they just have regular writing or if not, normal cursive writing?
They're like Pokemon, they forgot how to write to learn how to properly treat patients.
nothing compares to my cooking class teacher though
I thought they did it to fight against counterfeit prescriptions
Well... exceptions are always there. ✍️
Alright then, keep your secrets
Ok
When the docters goes on a protest, nothing will happen cause' they can't read the protest sign.
Reading doctor's handwriting is not hard if you have experience and knowledge of patients condition. Most of the time, you just pick out key letters and make your own deductions on what's prescribed. it's lkie raeding txet wtih jmubeld ltters. Jsut the first and last letter have to make sense. Or if you're bilingual and weak on second language. Sometimes people speak two languages in same line/sentence and you just have to make out key words you know to understand the situation
Bro wtf to be a doctor you need to go to college for 10-12 years 💀
@Rohan Chatterjee thank you he scared me
My handwriting is a doctor's handwriting, and even though I watch videos to help me improve, it doesn't mean that I will improve: that is just tips. My Chinese handwriting, also same; I have stress and anxiety of who goes first.
To conclude, if my handwriting is bad: it might be that I am writing a secret or I have stress.
Oh I Think That's Only In Indonesia and Malaysia, Western Too
Is that a resort?
But what about family doctors that aren’t on a time crunch? My doctors signature is so bad it’s funny. I always have a good laugh with the people checking me out. 😂
Good thing he explained it from like 7 different places, or else i wouldnt have understood what he said