For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 18, 2010

Dentists as bad as doctors then?

Yes, I agree hildigunnur.

Is he going mental?

Both my doctor and dentist have ineligible writing…

My better half is a doctor and has BEAUTIFUL, legible handwriting. Even some pharmacists are surprised by it…more than once we’ve gotten a call from a pharmacy, asking if a prescription was forged!

Cool…Lynn decided to use the “mental notes” strip as a transition…

There always has to be someone who doesn’t fit the stereotype. John isn’t one of them.

but I’m at the age I have to have real notes, but, but , now I have to PRINT, carefully. ….

Clever to have rearranged the order of some dailys.

My son has the world’s worst handwriting; but he is a cake decorator and his freehand handwriting on cakes is beautiful!

He’s a doctor, and therefore must have bad handwriting.

stop, he’s a dentist. Apparently they have bad handwriting.

My doctor got around the messy handwriting by typing his prescriptions. They are automatically printed off his computer. All the pharmacist has to deal with is his messy signature!

Gweedo Murray is right. the notes would easily disappear in his labrynth of a mind.

BigHug, Yes, computer prescriptions have made the pharmacist’s life easier! And John’s along with all the drs using this ap.

I haven’t seen a computer printed prescription slip, but I could see how that would be a big improvement. I usually ask the doctor’s office to call in my scripts, so that they are ready to pick up when I arrive at the pharmacy.

My mental notes consist of calling myself and leaving voice messages.

A Dr. once told me that the reason their handwriting is so bad is that they have to take copious notes very quickly in med school, so even the best handwriting deteriorates pretty quickly. That being said, this particular Dr.’s hobby was calligraphy and he had the most beautiful handwriting you’ve ever seen.

I agree with Ji2m. I have to write something down just as soon as i think of it or it is lost forever. But then again, my lovely, dear wife remembers everything for me. Sometimes I think she remembers more than I forget.

Scrawled through the halls of dental school, did he?

A doctor’s messy, illegible handwriting … why I never wanted to be a pharmacist! I’d have been on the phone ALL the time for prescription clarification because I would have been scared to death of accidentally killing someone if I thought it said one thing and it turned out to say something else!

During my grade 12 year, one of my classmates – one of the most gifted in the class – had a running battle with the English teacher who complained about his penmanship. Everything came to a head one day when she shouted at him that she could not read his latest assignment.

“What do you expect of me!” he yelled back. “I’m going into pre-med next year!”

I think the whole class bursting out in laughter at this was enough to convince the teacher that this was a war she could not win.

Susan001 most of the links that howtheduck posts don’t end up on here the next day. Maybe one every now and again is all.

Of course, it’s your choice not to click on them… there are so many more things that you could do with that extra minute of your life that you’d gain! ;o)