Doctor's Handwriting

Doctors are notorious for their awful handwriting.  It's incredible that the pharmacists can even make out the drug they are to hand you a giant bottle of... let alone the proper dose and instructions.  Maybe when all the hospitals have switched to complete Electronic Medical Records this won't be such an issue. The doctor will simply have to click the right boxes in the computer and out will pop your prescription in neat 12 point Helvetica font.  Until this day, I will remain to be one of the few, oh and I do mean few, doctor-ish people who actually has neat, legible penmanship.  Normally I like getting compliments, but the number of daily complements and comments on my handwriting is actually starting to annoy me. They flip open the patient's chart and pause at seeing my clearly printed note. An eyebrow is raised suspiciously, "Who wrote this note?! Did YOU write this note? Wow, it's so easy to read!" Another nurse walks by and mutters, "It won't last."  I swear I could write complete mumbo-jumbo in that note and they would all miss it because they are so mesmerized. I think I could write stuff like, "I recommend that the patient's limbs be amputated immediately. In addition, cadaver faces should be transplanted to each of his remaining stumps."  It's bothersome. I might have to start writing a little more messy just to be taken seriously in this world.

The other day, I saw this cartoon in one of those little tear-off "hospital humor" calendars.  Usually they aren't very funny, but this  one actually made me smile.  I couldn't find it online, so I reconstructed it for you: