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(B. 1960) I'm one of those messed up by one of the early rounds of schools using(not) phonics. I am dependant on spellcheck, at least partically because I spell phonetically. My handwriting is awful also, although having to read my own, has enable me to read the notorius Dr's writing. I wonder if there is a course in pharmacy school in how to read Drs' writing
My grade school generation were also the part new math experience/disaster.
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I wonder if there is a course in pharmacy school in how to read Drs' writing
Not in NZ there isn't - I just asked the guy next door who is a pharmacist. But I'm convinced that medical students attend a compulsory writing course in their first few years of study which concentrates on making sure that their handwriting is totally illegible!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I actually read somewhere that they're starting a pilot program in some med school to teach doctors how to write WELL because so many patients die each year from uninterpretable prescriptions. Apparently it's been a big hit. But my brain is full of holes so I can't tell you when it was, where it was, how many people... 
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While I really succeeded fairly well in writing legibly, at times haste made waste. One oldtimer I was doing admission physical and history on told me the young doctor in his central Maine town, didn't know nothin', his medicine had no strength. I was covering for two interns out sick, and having to cut corners. I momentarily forgot usual name for most commonly used laxative, which (fifty years ago) in that hospital was equal parts of milk of magnesia and fluid extract of cascara. In my haste, I wrote Mag sulfate,which is epsom salt, terrible tasting and far stronger than magnesium citrate. Later when I went past his bed, he reached out and grabbed me and demanded to know what that terrible tasting medicine was. I went and looked at the order sheet, and was deeply chagrined. But I went back and reminded him that he had told me the young doctor in his home town didn't know anything because his medicine had no strength. Well, I said, you can't say that about me.wwh
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Well, not penmanship, exactly, but a great CYA story:
My father worked for a large electric and gas utility for many years, and enjoys telling the story of a coworker whose responsibility it was to order electrical supplies. One year in the early 1940s, in ordering the year's supply of copper wire, the friend misplaced a decimal point, and inadvertently ordered 10 times more than they needed. When all the copper arrived, and the friend was called on the carpet about his purchase, the friend blustered that he had intended the order, because, didn't they know there was a war coming. Well, within the year WWII had escalated, and copper was already running short, except for the utility, which had enough stock to last for the duration. And the misplaced decimal turned into genius.
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And the misplaced decimal turned into genius.
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Great story Sparteye.
Somewhere I heard that the Chinese ideograph for catastrophe is the same as for opportunity.
Surely if I have messed that up someone will seize the opportunity to leap into the breach and save me from catastrophic wrong headedness!
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"that the Chinese ideograph for catastrophe is the same as for opportunity"
And, I believe, the ideograph for trouble is the same as for mother-in-law (or, is it two women under the same roof?).
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and crossing thread, the ideograph for happiness, is a pig and woman under one roof!
it must be hard to learn all the ideographs, but they seem (from a foriegn perspective) to be very wise.
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