And I always thought you have to have bad handwriting to be a doctor ......

This is an article in Time magazine. http://www.time.com/time/
health/article/0,8599,15780
74,00.html
Very funny but at the same time serious to think of this. Here are some funny thoughts that come to my mind in full seriousness of the matter-

It is an eternal truth that doctors have bad handwriting. Finding a doctor with good handwriting is like finding a white crow in India outside zoos. The fact is so widely observed that I suspect they have a course on making the writing undecipherable. Almost seems like a part of defense mechanism against insurance companies, along with the face masks during surgery. No wonder if someone thinks that worse the handwriting better the doctor. Maybe because of this guilt consciousness my father took efforts on my handwriting in my childhood.

The handwriting adds to the mystique along with the heavy latin terms used in the medical terminology. Electronic prescriptions would be an easy let away for the doctors:). If one was to put down a list of signs to identify a doctor, bad handwriting would be the first one. This could be a subject of a seperate post.:)

Not to be taken personally as these are some harmless potshots at one of the oldest respectable profession.