The write stuff: Hospitals resort to penmanship classes for doctors

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The write stuff: Hospitals resort to penmanship classes for doctors

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (AP) -- He's a veteran physician who works as a trauma surgeon. Just don't ask Dr. Sheldon Brotman to write a legible prescription.

That's why he's here, sitting in a handwriting class at Atlantic City Medical Center, learning how to hold his pen, position his paper and put a sharp angle on his "z" so it doesn't look like an "s."

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:lol: i love it.

I was always told that I would have made a bad doctor because my handwriting was too neat.
 
There Is A God!!!!! Halleujah!!!!!
 
I went to school to be a Dr. and got kicked out because my handwriting was too BAD!
 
I love it! I got to tell you folks, at the old hospital where I worked before I left had just got a computer program that REQUIRED all of the M.D.s to type all of their orders!!! and you know that some of those guys complained because "what is wrong with my writing!" :wacko:
 
This goes along with the same reason JCAHO, will no longer allow the abbreviations of M.S., cc, Q.D. etc.. Too many errors were made from poor hand writing, I know I have been accused of being too much like a physician on my paper work and have been desperately to change things... I now print everything...

R/r 911
 
Same here Rid, I have written in cursive my entire life, and now I find that it is too messy for reports that others have to read. But the problem when I try to print is that it looks like a 6 year old wrote it....
 
i always print....any other way i'll get owned the next day.
 
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