Did you write this

[loup garou]

You should have a pharmacist try to read it for you.

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: loup garou
You should have a pharmacist try to read it for you.

Ya no kidding, they have mad skills. Maybe they have a hidden chart to help decifer wtf the doc is writing.

 

[Parasitic]

Is there a class in med school where they purposely teach you how to write horribly so people will have a hard time understanding it and thus raise the innate fearsome and authoritative image of physicians?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..I tell people to PRINT so I don't have to decode hieroglyphics.

my printing is no better, ill post up a SS of one of my college notebooks so you can LOL at it

 

[gar3555]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: gar3555

Originally posted by: pontifex
Why can't people write legibly, especially on business documents?

We get applications from businesses that want to be dealers of our products. I have to add this info to the dealer locator software on the website. There are many times where I can't read the writing. Is it that hard to write clearly or to take your time?

is someone just pissed off they had to go to calligraphy camp when they were growing up?

Um...no, never went to that. Is there even such a thing?

I am with you guys in cursive also, I don't write anything in cursive except my name. I used to write everything in cursive on my checks but I kept running into stuff I couldn't remember how to write, so I just started to write it in print.

tap, tap...damn sarcasm meter is broke today. Better get a repairman out here stat.

 

[Xavier434]

My hand writing is god awful. It always has been even before I regularly used a computer. I don't care though because it is extremely rare for me to handwrite anything longer than what will fit in your standard sticky note.

 

[intogamer]

Cursive is the shit. I can write a lot faster with it. Only if you guys and the rest of the world would take on it too.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: intogamer
Cursive is the shit. I can write a lot faster with it. Only if you guys and the rest of the world would take on it too.

You're what, 15 years old? Wait until you get into the real world; you'll realize how inefficient it really is. I myself still use some cursive, but that's only the occasional joined letters. Let's not forget that any forms you have to fill out require you to print, for legibility. You'll find yourself dropping cursive not long after you graduate.

 

[imported_Imp]

Ha, you don't know bad and pressure until you're doing data entry on medical applications. Those doctors think a line with 2 squiggles is a word. Even worse is when they use medical abbreviations...

 

[funkymatt]

i think all the drafting that i've done has trained me to print tiny. I was into calligraphy in jr high/high school but havent written anything fancy since our wedding thank you notes.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: pontifex
Why can't people write legibly, especially on business documents?

We get applications from businesses that want to be dealers of our products. I have to add this info to the dealer locator software on the website. There are many times where I can't read the writing. Is it that hard to write clearly or to take your time?

Why? Because it's too hard?

I'm 27 years old and my best writing looks like crap compared to most 5 year olds.
I take my time and my writing still looks like crap, it always has.

It probably doesn't help that when I was 8 years old, I fractured my left wrist and then again when I was 12 I fractured it again. (Note: I am left handed) During those weeks, I was forced to write with my right hand. It took 10 times as long and it was even less legible than writing with my left hand is. Over the years in school I developed a hatred, no, rather a LOATHING for writing.

Cursive is horrible and inconsistent. I refuse to write cursive except for signing my name, and when I do sign my name, it looks much more like the pen exploded than some type of decipherable symbols.


I have no problem with typing though. I do prefer a mechanical keyboard with a Dvorak layout .... (I love my Das Keyboard 2.)

I would prefer for paper, pens, and pencils not to exist at all. Paperless is the way to go in all case for everything. I hate writing. It is horrible.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn

Originally posted by: pontifex
Why can't people write legibly, especially on business documents?

We get applications from businesses that want to be dealers of our products. I have to add this info to the dealer locator software on the website. There are many times where I can't read the writing. Is it that hard to write clearly or to take your time?

Why? Because it's too hard?

I'm 27 years old and my best writing looks like crap compared to most 5 year olds.
I take my time and my writing still looks like crap, it always has.

It probably doesn't help that when I was 8 years old, I fractured my left wrist and then again when I was 12 I fractured it again. (Note: I am left handed) During those weeks, I was forced to write with my right hand. It took 10 times as long and it was even less legible than writing with my left hand is. Over the years in school I developed a hatred, no, rather a LOATHING for writing.

Cursive is horrible and inconsistent. I refuse to write cursive except for signing my name, and when I do sign my name, it looks much more like the pen exploded than some type of decipherable symbols.


I have no problem with typing though. I do prefer a mechanical keyboard with a Dvorak layout .... (I love my Das Keyboard 2.)

I would prefer for paper, pens, and pencils not to exist at all. Paperless is the way to go in all case for everything. I hate writing. It is horrible.

The applications are printed, not in cursive. their printed handwriting is horrible. i couldn't even begin to imagine what it would look like in cursive!

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn

Originally posted by: pontifex
Why can't people write legibly, especially on business documents?

We get applications from businesses that want to be dealers of our products. I have to add this info to the dealer locator software on the website. There are many times where I can't read the writing. Is it that hard to write clearly or to take your time?

Why? Because it's too hard?

I'm 27 years old and my best writing looks like crap compared to most 5 year olds.
I take my time and my writing still looks like crap, it always has.

It probably doesn't help that when I was 8 years old, I fractured my left wrist and then again when I was 12 I fractured it again. (Note: I am left handed) During those weeks, I was forced to write with my right hand. It took 10 times as long and it was even less legible than writing with my left hand is. Over the years in school I developed a hatred, no, rather a LOATHING for writing.

Cursive is horrible and inconsistent. I refuse to write cursive except for signing my name, and when I do sign my name, it looks much more like the pen exploded than some type of decipherable symbols.


I have no problem with typing though. I do prefer a mechanical keyboard with a Dvorak layout .... (I love my Das Keyboard 2.)

I would prefer for paper, pens, and pencils not to exist at all. Paperless is the way to go in all case for everything. I hate writing. It is horrible.

The applications are printed, not in cursive. their printed handwriting is horrible. i couldn't even begin to imagine what it would look like in cursive!

Printing is horrible too.
I especially hate cursive though.

Also, I was a pharmacy tech for 5 years. I have probably read and inputted over 50K new prescriptions into the computer system when I was a tech. During that time I had encountered some pretty bad writing. I would say that at least 90% of physicians have better handwriting than myself. And they typically "scribble real fast" where I "write slow" ....

 

[coldmeat]

Originally posted by: Pantoot

Originally posted by: Anubis
i dont remember most of the cursive letters, only whats in my name

My son is learning cursive, I had a really hard time telling him to not bother. I cannot remember the last time I wrote more than my signature in cursive.

Just because he may never use it doesn't mean he shouldn't learn it.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: pontifex
I am with you guys in cursive also, I don't write anything in cursive except my name. I used to write everything in cursive on my checks but I kept running into stuff I couldn't remember how to write, so I just started to write it in print.

WTF! you have to know 52 symbols...most look pretty close to there print counterparts.

its true, however if you have not used them in 15 years you eaisily forget them

Dunno if I buy that...maybe if you have a piss-poor memory. I certainly don't use cursive, but I could write in it if I so chose.

The problem with cursive is that it's slow, bad cursive is even more illegible than bad printing, and good cursive can be pretty illegible too (think "grandma's stylized Christmas letters") Good or mediocre printed letters are usually easy to make out.

I have very poor handwriting. If I slow down to a crawl, it's not too bad, but that just makes me long for a computer. In fact, I don't know why EVERYTHING isn't done by computer, they're much better in every way, assuming you have electricity.

 

[Soundmanred]

I would prefer for paper, pens, and pencils not to exist at all. Paperless is the way to go in all case for everything.

To quote Michael Scott of Dunder Mifflin, Scranton Branch - " Unlimited paper in a paperless world."

 

[potato28]

I have doctors writing naturally, I can't help it and it can't be fixed. Pisses off people that try to read it too