The doctors are notorious for their handwriting. Well,
everyone in this profession knows it is a bitter reality. Most of the medical
students will find it difficult to decipher their senior’s case sheets. But as
the medical life progresses, we get used to it. We learn to decipher things.
The writing becomes just a matter of giving the brain a cue to guess what is
meant. Most of the time we manage. But there are some very difficult cases that
can really tear your head apart. I am lucky to have some people with such
blessing with me.
I have wondered why it happens. Most of the medical students
are of high intellectual grade, the reason why they got it into this
profession. One factor may the shear volume of things of repetitive nature we
have to not down daily. I have handwriting, which is good if I write slowly,
but as it get busy it gradually deteriorates. Sometime I deliberately write in
a shabby manner because I am bored writing the same thing many times. Rarely I
do that to prevent other people from reading.
I have also seen, some doctors who actually take sincere
effort to keep all their writing neat and clear. They need appreciation. There
are some other people whom I hate so much. They write in such a way that, if
you look from a distance it is all uniform even calligraphy. But if you try to
read what they have written, you will be in soup. There will be so many
incomplete words and meaningless strokes. One of my friend underlines wherever
he finds comfortable. Those lines do not mean anything.
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| patient position |
When you are a surgeon, then you will also have ample
opportunity to express your artistic skill. Here is my colleague’s
impression of patient position for donor nephrectomy. Look at that expression.
So deep and thoughtful.
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