[kegbat]

He's got to have East Coast blood in him from somewhere....the real idiots are from the east coast.

[kegbat]

Now I did clarify this with the ER doc. Penna does have Board certification for Obnoxious and arrogant and hieroglyphics. It is a speciality by itself!

[Aaron C.]

I swear, there is some backwards penmanship engineering somewhere during med school. It cannot be a coincidence.

How many people die every year because of shotty doctors handwriting? I would bet it is a pretty solid number.

That is the thing that pisses me off the most.

Look at the lengths they go to ensuring that nurses are responsible for their actions. I mean it's insane, and yet you NEVER hear even a word mentioned about doctors handwriting.

Oprah could do a show on it, and take a sample, just a random sample of doctors orders from across the country, and it would instantly be an issue. Until that happens, it won't be. (I am not so secretly in love with Oprah)

In fact, I'm writing her right now!!!!!

[kegbat]

I did an assignment a few years ago at OSU Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. They were implementing computer charting and the Doctors were the first ones to have to start. They had to put all their orders in the computer. I tell you it was GREAT! Talk about pissing and moaning....you would have thought someone took their BMW or something.

Worked last night and awful time decifering 'Duoneb txs q 6 hrs'. When I 1st read it, thought it was refering to IVF. I was looking for IV orders as Pt had D5LR hanging but NSS was marked on IV sheet and I needed to clarify what the patient was actually to have. Piss poor handwriting should be a crime in the medical field. And these Doctors need to made accountable.

Oops- almost forgot - give Oprah our love !!

[Aaron C.]

still waiting on a response from Oprah herself...

[Anonymous]

Well, I hate to say this but when I worked in the hospital I was the one the unit clerks came to to decipher hand writing... Some how I could always figure it out. I have a photographic memory I suppose that's how I did it..And very good penmenship BTW... HMMMMMMMM

I guess I just wasn't gonna let it get the best of me.

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Now nephrologists might take the cake..

[HemoStat]

I worked in Virginia for many years, many years ago and recently went back for a visit. I was riding a crowded elevator up to my old floor when a doctor grabbed me and said "thank God you're back!!!" "Can you teach those idiots how to read my handwriting? - they've been bugging the hell out of me since you left!!!" Seems I'm the only one who could EVER read that chicken scritch!!!

The funny thing is, he could never remember my name and always acted like I never existed, but that day on the elevator he sure knew who I was!!!

[Anonymous]

LOLLL A friend in need....................



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[ZinnianWolf]

I am not a nurse yet. I did work in the O.R. as a surgical tech. and I have had the unfortunate pleasure of working with the "I am God" idiots, oops I mean doctors. I have been in the room when they were cracking jokes about the physical appearance of patients, I have been yelled at for correcting a doctor because he contaminated the sterile field, and I have left the room in tears because I helped take out the trash in the whole room. Now I am in nursing school and I see the same bull crap more than I'd like to. It only pushes me harder to become a nurse. We were going through charts one day and I swear the hand writing was so bad, that out of the 100 or so words and numbers on the page, I could only read the number "4". We are constantly told that our handwriting in the nurses notes need to be legible, so why isn't the same thing told to the docs. I am tired of trying to decipher the hand writing and I think this is one of the reasons why so many errors are made. And god forbid if you call for clarification about something. The docs are ready to shoot you. All of the good nurses that I worked with as a tech left because of pay cuts, and not for nothing I hate working with nurses who don't give a crap about there patients and are only there for the money. You have to have some type of empathy and sympathy if you plan on being in this field for a long time. Well I have more to say, but I don't want to take up all of the room on the post.

[Anonymous]

I have found that people who try to be intimidating hate it when you are nice to them.. They don't know what to do.. And I just get real close and say quietly, "Ya know you put your pants on one leg at a time just like I do."

I like the nurse who told a doctor one time that if he didn't stop having a temper tantrum she was gonna call his mother..LOLLLL

As for the handwriting.. I don't guess. You either write it so I can read it, type it, put it in the computer yourself or you get a call...


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