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Why Doctors Have Bad Handwriting! - Real Doctor Explains

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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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@DocUnlock 5 лет назад

This episode was filmed at Port Dickson in Malaysia. Got a question? Let me know!

@janelee4484 5 лет назад

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.

@DocUnlock 5 лет назад

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.

@janelee4484 5 лет назад

@@DocUnlock no problem revealing my name

@abundantharmony 2 года назад

Haha, do you, like everyone else, pretend they are muslim there?

@artistixc 2 года назад

Heh thanks for visit our country

@user-xf2rm7pp4z 5 лет назад

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.

@DocUnlock 5 лет назад

Lol! I can just imagine your teacher scratching his/her head wondering why you couldn't take the hint!

@marksuckinbeard1419 3 года назад

My teacher called one of my classmates we thought it was a compliment lol

@pashauzan 3 года назад

oof

@wouldyoukindly4657 3 года назад

Same here brother

@demonetization6596 2 года назад

I thought my teacher meant I was smart too, now I understand that she was trying to tell me my handwriting was shit

@rajaputra1038 4 года назад

I always thought that doctor handwriting is like some sort of secret handwriting that only readable for the pharmacist

@MIZORAM_mafaka_hnamte 4 года назад

same here... that's what I always thought

@wilsyndakidd3816 4 года назад

Raja Afrizal it’s tru

@mitchell3877 4 года назад

Me too bro

@dibbidydoo4318 3 года назад

in a way, it is.

@xthejokerx105 3 года назад

yeah me too

@duydang2879 5 лет назад

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

@DocUnlock 5 лет назад

A classic example of bad handwriting! :D

@janelee4484 5 лет назад

🤣🤣

@efmusic04 4 года назад

*recognise

@kay.e9014 4 года назад

@@jokeyboy1450 that is not nice

@Rosan04 3 года назад

Haha ha i m pharmacist and i cn relate

@poggersbutthole8444 3 года назад

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*

@keerthanasenthil4223 3 года назад

got the whole tour too

@doc7782 4 года назад

I had bad handwriting since childhood and today M a doctor!🤘😂

@l.n.b7312 3 года назад

Lmfao😂😂

@32mzeeshan 3 года назад

Same here

@KatsuisCooking 3 года назад

Should i become a doctor too?

@yamisan69 3 года назад

Mee i had bad writing HAHA

@theturkey141 3 года назад

@@KatsuisCooking yea man it’s good as an profession

@reza310 3 года назад

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

@hethen8834 4 года назад

After every part of speaking... *"ight imma head out"*

@soos4719 4 года назад

Adios

@bigmax5780 3 года назад

LMAO

@sozuruQ2 3 года назад

HAHAHHAHA

@masacatior 3 года назад

For new comers it looks like he's flexing his mansion

@kolin9395 4 года назад

My doctors handwriting is just a line with bumps

@vulplupi1164 4 года назад

Time to bring typewriters back

@lysolmyfish 3 года назад

Yes, definitely yes.

@JohnSmith-pm6zb 4 года назад

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!

@janelee4484 5 лет назад

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!

@DocUnlock 5 лет назад

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.

@lordnul1708 3 года назад

I always thought the bad handwriting was entirely on purpose to make it difficult to forge as possible.

@astraeanatsuki3231 4 года назад

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☹️🥺

@coolman6139 2 года назад

What happened when your teacher later on had a meeting with your dad?

@Pluzoel_Dashmi Год назад

Bad teacher🥺

@corvusdominus9835 11 месяцев назад

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.

@Me-lb8nd 10 месяцев назад

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.

@Dr_Holiday 3 года назад

It even got to the point where people think the worst your handwriting is the better doctor you are.

@HoaNguyen-ui7vg 3 года назад

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?

@jmm1233 5 лет назад

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

@flawed.beauty 2 года назад

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!😂

@christopher4443 2 года назад

"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

@stormranger528 4 года назад

Next video: why do doctors always move around

@nusaibahibraheem8183 5 лет назад

Stop moving

@jb03hf 3 года назад

How many pools do doctors HAVE.

@FreeJulianAssange23 3 года назад

🤣😂😅😂😅🤣😂

@sonyamonroe9216 3 года назад

I've heard that people that have terrible hand writing are really smart

@army__bts3736 2 года назад

Thank you

@Me-lb8nd 10 месяцев назад

Nah, that's just their excuse!

@dearryuzaki 4 месяца назад

@@Me-lb8ndlmao fr

@justme-ef3kg 3 года назад

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

@RAMES.H9 3 года назад

😁😁😁😁😁🤗

@jry.....why.1605 3 года назад

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.🌹✨🎇🌷💐💝

@ark3082 3 года назад

AHHHHH that is why i have so bad handwriting no wonder I am a medical student

@shamarjones1442 Год назад

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?😢

@kranthiaryan6050 5 лет назад

A patient cured is a customer lost

@marcoshernandez1427 3 года назад

And you wonder why they are so many malpractice suits. Prescriptions should be legible.

@JosephLaiLifeOnTheRandom 5 лет назад

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

@DocUnlock 5 лет назад

Spot on! :)

@teji7723 4 года назад

It’s like trying to decipher ancient mesopitopian Tablets

@fazzrock9812 3 года назад

I have doctor's handwriting but am an engineer 🤔 Will the society accept me 🥺

@oreokarail 2 года назад

@tusharpandey858 2 года назад

I'm a architect with bad handwriting does that counts

@vhicdkoh 5 лет назад

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.

@DocUnlock 5 лет назад

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

@MrArthoz 3 года назад

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.

@ASMR_Orangely 4 года назад

That moment when the doctor gives you hand-written prescriptions and you pretend to understand everything.

@ASMR_Orangely 3 года назад

@Tikky wow how did you find my comment? I haven’t even got many likes likes. 😄

@samnicholson5051 3 года назад

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.

@KatsuisCooking 3 года назад

Me who has a bad handwriting since elementary: guess ill be a doctor ¯\_(🤨)_/¯

@deidrelacey4494 2 года назад

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 🤷‍♀️

@reya9620 2 года назад

My handwriting when only 10 minutes of the exam left be like:

@jabobBeppler 5 лет назад

Eyebrows took a bit too much sharpie today

@warsada2106 4 года назад

Jacob Keppler 😂☠️☠️☠️ VIOLATION

@LicPlate8VPL158 4 года назад

do a segment on pre-workouts please

@anamazingsheep9017 5 лет назад

Your videos are amazing :)

@dailymemies 5 лет назад

They just want the patient to die

@yuzu-samayoi9419 4 года назад

More patient , more money. Doctors mindset

@jaybee9213 4 месяца назад

This is my only complaint about getting prescriptions from doctors. Why make it unreadable especially for the patients? If you forgot what it's called then get a wrong medicine from the drugstore, you'll probably end up getting even more sick. Please write in alphanumeric letters once you are already a doctor

@Hazen3Che-music 4 месяца назад

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.

@mafiaman8735 2 года назад

Any apps to correct their handwriting !?

@thesimpledevil4817 4 года назад

*finally now i can die in peace* _Beautiful places tho_

@user-jh7cq3ct6u Год назад

Maybe that's why it takes forever at pharmacist..they're all in the back trying to deciphe and translate like Sherlock Holmes a

@DogFoxHybrid 3 года назад

I wonder if a McDonald's type picture menu would be efficient for filling out charts?

@ezekielnual1499 3 года назад

did i just saw this guy writing with mouse?

@BarelySaneGenius Год назад

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

@superjohn274 3 года назад

Ah yes, my parents are doctors and surgeons and they have been judging my handwriting sucked

@spicerc1244 4 года назад

K now explain why they push so much opioid

@boobalooux 3 года назад

99.9 of my doctors have a TERRIBLE handwritting

@heyyou9472 3 года назад

tl;dr god do you have any idea how often they have to write stuff like departures, tests, diagnosis, prescriptions, or procedures?

@rowena6832 4 года назад

my doctor gave up on writing and now he just prints

@magasandhya 3 года назад

It’s not like telling about Dr it’s like showing their house tour😅

@Richard-nl3bt 4 года назад

Teacher: UR homework is correct but It took 2000 years to read Me: I do like what my dad does

@xYottabyte 4 года назад

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

@ploopybear 3 года назад

Maybe think of your handwriting as an architectural project and it will get better

@PTEC Год назад

I thought there was actually a meaning behind it too. Like that one Twitter post said.

@paaglimonicat6307 2 года назад

🙄😬 do we just have the same shortcut signature... Except that i added a vertical line

@Noooooooo11 3 года назад

In simple words: They need to fast

@1dhanush1667 8 месяцев назад

I am a nurse and in corporate or private hospitals I seen nurses have more documentation work than doctors

@bigmango202 Год назад

I always thought it was to prevent fraudulent prescriptions or something

@biancaking2502 4 года назад

I thought that they do that so that regular people cant read what medicine you have like for privacy

@hamburgerhamburgerv2 2 года назад

TL;DR: extreme time pressure and high volume is to blame

@sainabheeroo2033 3 года назад

Its not a bad handwriting actually its a really really good and beautiful handwriting! Can my handwriting be like that god?

@RAMES.H9 3 года назад

Lite ya mobile

@DaaronIrwing 3 года назад

So I should give 5$ tip to doctors for good writing before doctor will write.

@tilakoli89 3 года назад

2:00 ... this time i decided to bounce around of that .........instead of it bouncing out through my head..😂😂😂

@aiosquadron 3 года назад

When the docters goes on a protest, nothing will happen cause' they can't read the protest sign.

@SonicHedgehog1991 2 года назад

They're like Pokemon, they forgot how to write to learn how to properly treat patients.

@sirisaacnewton3305 3 года назад

Bro wtf to be a doctor you need to go to college for 10-12 years 💀

@army__bts3736 2 года назад

@Rohan Chatterjee thank you he scared me

@AnnoyedArt1256 4 года назад

Everyone told me that I have bad handwriting they made me sad. But actually I'm very good at touch typing lol

@lysolmyfish 3 года назад

Yes, I am actually one of the fastest typers in my class but my handwriting is atrocious, haha.

@ironman2326 2 года назад

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.

@TitaT 3 года назад

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 😂

@jayjay-bz3rr Год назад

2:53. Your swimming pool water is very very blue

@AcademicJaedon 7 месяцев назад

WOAAGHHHHHHDHHD

@derisetiawan4077 3 года назад

Oh I Think That's Only In Indonesia and Malaysia, Western Too

@e3vL1 3 года назад

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

@saturos5068 Год назад

Good thing he explained it from like 7 different places, or else i wouldnt have understood what he said

@yshqu Год назад

nothing compares to my cooking class teacher though

@ahmadalsarray5293 3 года назад

Him: here’s my signature everyone! Lol

@jermainmcdonald6967 3 года назад

Damn that koi pond🔥🔥🔥

@cameosix7077 3 года назад

Ye, now I understand why my Hospital Computerized prescriptions

@trash_climber1 2 года назад

You may can get mad at doctor’s handwriting, but try to remember how you couldn’t even write a the age of 5

@Merhawi213 Месяц назад

What about texts?

@FireStormBaller 2 года назад

The stethoscope is to hear heartbeats... That's so simple!

@kranthiaryan6050 5 лет назад

Thanks.... Plz do more videos like this.. 👍

@DocUnlock 5 лет назад

Yes more videos coming up soon! Thanks for your support :)

@Someone-rx5hh 4 года назад

I heard that if you have doctors handwriting then you’ll be a doctor in the future

@GabrielaTorres-do3cg 4 года назад

If that's true, that explains my husband and many friends of mine who have doctor's handwriting and are studying or are doctors.

@srank7953 3 года назад

lol i write fast and my handwriting is bad maybe i will become a doctor lol

@kimienick6721 2 года назад

ECG matter😅😅😅😅😅 nothing change for me... No matter write carefully or not the result is same, but if I change the expensive pen I wrote better than using cheap pen☺☺

@gayathrikumar5643 3 года назад

I thought they wrote like that on purpose to make us remember they they say in our prescription without having to refer to it.

@KINGABDUL99 2 года назад

Great video wow nice

@sguzaki4545 5 лет назад

*When you're able to read and speak aloud someone's shitty handwriting* *_I C A N S P E A K M U L T I P L E L A N G U A G E S_*

@raxyls2475 2 года назад

I feel like a lot of doctors have dyslexia, so they just go to med school which doesnt need much english but then they realize how many prescriptions they have to write.

@thundageon5962 2 года назад

Would you believe as a passionate gamer, I actually have the best handwriting out of other students in class.

@anormaldude127 Год назад

doctors whright this so your lawjer is confused so they cant go after you, cuz if they say you did whright somting then you will go like "what do you think this is!". basicaly keeping you ot of the law

@MrTuna-pt6wu 4 года назад

Why can't they just have regular writing or if not, normal cursive writing?

@MyThoughtzAndOpinionz 2 года назад

I thought they did it to fight against counterfeit prescriptions

@tweezerjam 2 года назад

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. 😂