Doctors' Handwriting. Why is it ugly?

hey argie..
i had been having this doubt since my childhood..
when my parents ever used to say that i have to improve my handwriting i used to say i am going to become a doctor and that's why am preparing for that..
anyway, coming to the question, i think they do that to prevent us from knowing the correct diagnosis and medicines that they have prescribed.. only then we will visit the doctor often for further check-ups and medication.. [lol]

I believe because this way if they dont know what they are talking about nor do you.lol After working with a number of doctors they have had to do so much writing to get were they are that by the time they take on there own patience they cant be bothered writing neatly. Or they just think your a number and want to move on to the next patient. So they can buy there BMWs lol.

doctors do have a bad handwriting but not all of them.. my two cousins are doctors but both of them have a fantastic handwriting.. generally what i feel is doctors have to study a lot.. learn a lot and they do this by writing so that it is there for ever in their mind..( it is a proven fact that if you write something you tend to remember it ) and so they write a lot and with a gr8 speed so that they cover the entire course in time.. maybe thats why their handwriting gets distorted in the way...:)

I think it has something to do with doctors always being in a hurry. They never seem to run out of paitents. So they scribble as fast as they can to save time. I have never seen any doctor's writing that I could completely understand. Many people with poor handwriting make good doctors...lol.

They know how to write, they do write fast so it isn't so easy to forge a prescription. When I was in nursing school my hand writing became a scrawl because I was having to write so fast to keep up with my note taking. It becomes a skill actually.

Now many doctors have their nurses write the scripts and they also have a stamp signature for the doc's signature. It makes it easier for the doc.

I used to think they took a course in how to write that way, but I think it just comes natural... it did for me.

doctors are not the only one's who has bad handwritings, most of us do.it so happens that the doctors became epitome of the curse.they usually have bad handwritings because they have a lot of things in their minds and calligraphy is not one of them.People who has a lot to thing about usually suffers from this syndrome and today there are a lot of people who has it because of the current technology being used in communicating.there are only a few people nowadays who writes letters so they do not have the practice of fine tuning their handwriting.so, let's not just point our finger only to the doctors.try looking at some architects.

I imagine it is because they want to get the interview over in a hurry to get on to the next patient and so write much too fast which becomes messy and unintelligible.
My son has terrible writing when he tries to write quickly.
Mine is still readable but then I write quite quickly anyway.

i believe its to do with the language that doctors are instructed to use with dealing with medicines, most doctors learn most medical terms, medicines, vacines in Latin dont ask why its just the way it is and the hand writing is ho doctors write in latin its kind of like a font but hand written, if you take a doctors note to another doctor i bet my house on it they can read it

Eheeeeee...you really have a good question...I really don't know but I get wonder too.Maybe because no body can steal their writing.

In my country if you want to become a doctor you have to follow 6 years at the University. And in 6 years they have to learn a lot, i mean very very much... and having to learn so much they neglect the writing or they are trying to write as much as possible in short amount of time...
so probably that's why the writing is so ugly... it's like a code between doctors:)