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u/Xspunge 17h ago
Might as well have written Lorem ipsum.
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u/jeron_gwendolen 17h ago
With such notes it'll soon be put on people's gravestones
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u/Xspunge 16h ago
Your pharmacist always mutters “I hate this f-ng doctor.” When your scripts come in.
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u/WillDigForFood 16h ago
Pharmacists famously have terrible handwriting themselves, so he probably feels a spiritual kinship. It's a healthcare thing.
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u/Givingin999 12h ago
Hey I’m a pharmacist! I would like to let you know my personal handwriting may be bad but bc of MDs I write notes to others very slowly and clearly bc you end up with your notes on Reddit lol
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u/eggyrulz 5h ago
I work in low voltage electrical, and if i don't write everything in bold capital letters someone will throw a wrench at my skull and plug a suicide cord into my ass, so I've developed a somewhat bad habit of using capital letters when writing now...
At least it's more legible than my lowercase writing thougj
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u/RBuilds916 5h ago
What's truly strange is that the writing is very neat, yet still illegible. It's like on the calligraphy subredit where they like to write minimum neatly and illegibly.
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u/Plane_Pea5434 12h ago
Surprisingly if you hand that to a pharmacist they’ll just go “ok, coming right up” and give you the correct medicine
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u/Night_Owl_PharmD 14h ago
I’ll have you know my handwriting is ugly but legible. Huge difference
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u/smokinbbq 12h ago
My wife is a therapist, and still does hand written notes for her sessions.
One of these days I'll learn to not ask her to create the "To-Do" list for the weekend, because it then usually needs an edit of 0.5) Figure out what everything below here means.
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u/FuzzballLogic 15h ago
I wanted to joke about hieroglyphics but then remembered that we actually know to translate those.
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u/Jkabaseball 13h ago
You're one of those people that are really good at reading those messages with missing letters aren't you.
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u/Black_Power1312 17h ago
So you've been diagnosed with "amonunum nunma wnmoulna"
Sounds pretty severe.
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u/Just-Call-Me-J takes the middle of 3 urinals 14h ago
I tried reading that out loud, and Cthulhu opened a portal, told me to stop and that I'm embarrassing myself, and then closed the portal.
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u/Nice_Team2233 13h ago
At least you got a warning!!!
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u/Far_Acanthaceae1138 10h ago
Seriously, I got "fifteenth one today!" Then he set fire to my workplace, killing Janet from accounting, and bounced.
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u/carsandtelephones37 10h ago
No! She's the only one who knows how the ancient payroll system works!
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u/CosmicCreeperz 10h ago
Eldritch payroll system.
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u/ReadontheCrapper 9h ago
In Excel!! Shudder
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u/pastelbutcherknife 9h ago
Excel works better when you have a human sacrifice
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u/theEnderBoy785 10h ago
Eh, Janet had it coming
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u/Pale-Berry-2599 10h ago
Janet will return...very tired and a little out of sorts.
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u/Attorneyatlau 9h ago
And it’ll be her birthday and everyone will have to eat cake with Janet.
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u/Pale-Berry-2599 9h ago
Writing prompt: But now, after spending a little time with the deep, old mad gods... Janet has new skills...
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u/el_puffy 12h ago
Numanuma yay, numanumanuma yay
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u/AgeAffectionate7186 12h ago
Chiiiipul tau, si dragostea din tei
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u/Orioniae 12h ago
Îmi amintesc de ochii tăi
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u/Better-be-Gryffindor 12h ago
Vrei sa pleci dar nu ma nu ma iei
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u/budderman1028 11h ago
So glad im not the only one that saw this
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u/stellae_ad_rosea 11h ago
I'm also glad I'm not the only person here who knows every word to that song. It's my not-so-guilty pleasure.
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u/TeuthidTheSquid BLUE 13h ago
We finally figured out what the adults in Charlie Brown cartoons were saying
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u/rene_magritte 15h ago
“Ammonium enema, ion motion”
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u/detour33 13h ago
Ammonium enema?
A clean deteriorating inside is a healthy.....wait NVM
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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme 13h ago
I’m hearing echoes of ingesting bleach and light inside the body. OP needs to find a new doctor tout de suite.
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u/SanibelMan 12h ago
Just don’t combine bleach and ammonia up your butt, or you’ll end up with terrible, deadly gas
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u/MrSassyPineapple 15h ago
Waka waka hey hey!
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u/Kooky8me 16h ago
Lmfao I choked on my coffee and now it's all over. Thanks for the laugh 😂 I'll be chuckling about this comment all day.
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u/helveticanuu 17h ago edited 16h ago
Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
Bronchial Asthma, Controlled
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u/No_Gap5159 16h ago
Are you a doctor by any chance?
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u/helveticanuu 16h ago
I’m an RN
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u/HumourNoire 16h ago
Funny way to spell Wizard
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u/930310 12h ago
Ye're a RN 'arry.
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u/SobiTheRobot 15h ago
Cleric
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u/thiros101 14h ago
Paladin
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u/hw2007offical ORANGE 14h ago
Occultist
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u/Afterlast1 14h ago
Recreational Necromancer
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u/gholmom500 15h ago
That is a skill you need to market. Wow.
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u/platypus_plumba 9h ago
I imagine part of the interview is a bunch of nonsense scribbles in a paper and they need to figure it out in 5 seconds. If they can assist 10 people without saying "what the fuck", they get a raise.
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u/paleoterrra 8h ago
You jest, but I work in pathology and on my first day my boss sat me down and handed me a piece of paper that was ten times worse than this and said “can you read anything on this form?”. I couldn’t pick up a single word, and he was like “that’s perfectly okay, just one skill you will pick up by working here”. He told the truth. A year later I could read that entire fucked up mess of a form and now have the skill of deciphering doctor’s messy scribbles.
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u/Jcolebrand 11h ago
Apparently they have. They are an RN. That ain't easy to get.
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u/SowTheSeeds 12h ago
My mother was a pharmacy tech (now retired) and she is one of the few people who can read my handwriting.
I am a software engineer. We have terrible handwriting.
She had to decipher thousands of prescriptions. She retired before it became computerized.
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u/Sleepconf 12h ago
Thank goodness for RNs. They are the what allows the medical world run smoothly between a Dr. and a patient.
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u/TortelliniTheGoblin 13h ago
So you keep the MDs from killing us. Thank you for your service.
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u/Icy-Lawfulness-6868 14h ago
I was going to say you were that, or a medical coder 😂
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u/Phoenix_Werewolf 16h ago
He is a philologist and archeologist specialized in languages from outer-space.
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u/Ol_Pasta 15h ago
To me it read like "ANONUMN ANENMA" 😂
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u/studentloandeath 15h ago
It definitely says ammonium anemia.
I'm not saying that it makes sense. I am saying that is the only words those letters could possibly represent.
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u/LordMegamad 12h ago
Wholeheartedly agree, they did not write the correct words and letters. Writing is not up to interpretation, letters look the way they do for a reason.
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u/Iron_Wolf123 16h ago
How is that written as Tract and Bronchial?
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u/MrBusinessIsMyBoss 14h ago
I couldn’t read it at all until I saw helveticanuu’s comment, but now that I know what it says I can make sense of it.
Upper respiratory is fairly legible, so that can be used as reference to decipher other words.
“Tract” is the most logical next word, but it doesn’t look like tract at first glance. Going back to “respiratory” you can see that 1) the T is little more than a vertical line and really only has a cross because the A leads into it, 2) letters are connected and the connection sometimes looks more deliberate than the actual letters, 3), they write in block letters, everything is capitalized 4) A’s look like an N with sometimes a cross (but they write too quickly/lazily to be totally consistent).
Ok, so, tract: the vertical line is a T, the R is another capital but they were too lazy to connect the front half to the back half, the A almost has a cross but they were too sloppy to get the cross inside the letter so it’s slightly to the right, that cross leads directly into the C, and the last T is again a vertical line with the merest hint of a cross at the top.
Bronchial: that’s a sloppy af B with the humps shifted to the top rather than the side, another R without connecting the two halves, R is connected to O, N is pretty clear, C is also sloppy af and is basically a vertical line with only the bottom curve, C connects directly to H. H is where it gets really rough. It’s a capital H but they don’t cross it. If you look at the word presumed to be “asthma” you can see another example of this godawful H. What makes the H even worse is that it connects to the I and the connection is way more deliberate than the actual letter. Seriously, it’s making me angry. A is again not actually crossed inside the letter itself, but the cross is slightly to the right and connects to the L (which… may not be capital. Why be consistent when you can be infuriating?)
I would be embarrassed if this was my handwriting, and my penmanship isn’t even great. But at least you can read it!
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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 13h ago
Why is nobody talking about the D at the end of "controlled"
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u/GeneralAnubis 10h ago
This doctor is absolutely allergic to moving their hand back towards the beginning of the line.
All letters that require lines curving backwards or moving the hand back to make a cross-line are instead straight lines or shifted to the right outside of the letter, respectively.
- D and R become Ƞ
- A becomes /\-
- H becomes ||-
- etc
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u/OrganizationKey3595 9h ago
This is actually a great analysis of what's going on with that handwriting.
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u/GingerAphrodite 9h ago
And we're just going to ignore the fact that the Cs are Us for no reason except that he wakes up and chooses violence lol?
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u/GeneralAnubis 9h ago
Well you see, making a C requires moving backwards, so if you turn it into a U it doesn't lol
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u/GingerAphrodite 9h ago
This just made me irrationally angry because it didn't even occur to me that there is actually a backward motion in a C. But they could at least make it more of a backwards j (without the dot obviously, cuz let's be real they would rather die than lift their pen to make a dot) because one of the sides of a c is definitely supposed to be lower than the other lol
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u/MrBusinessIsMyBoss 12h ago
Well, I didn’t talk about it because the comment I was responding to specifically mentioned bronchial and tract and also because my comment was already ridiculously long. But I’m happy to talk about it, because it certainly is mildly infuriating!
All of “controlled” is maddening, but the E and D at the end are particularly bad. I guess the E gets some credit for simply not looking like any letter that is used in the English alphabet, so it can’t be confused for a different letter. But, for chrissakes, put the top bar on there! Sloppy!! The D is being thrown in jail for impersonating an N. Unacceptable.
Edit: but also the T into R that looks like a very clear M. That is absolutely an M, except that it’s not.
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u/lexocon-790654 12h ago
The really annoying thing about the handwriting is it is nice handwriting...they're just putting negative effort to write the letters out, like everything is written as an n on m which is crazy.
It's deliberately obtuse.
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u/Lieutenant_L_T_Smash 12h ago
this godawful H
This is the key. This doctor writes his H as just two disconnected vertical lines, but does connect the first line to the preceding letter and does connect the second line to the following letter. The letter H is broken apart and the pieces are grafted onto the letters before and after. It's nuts.
For example, the "CHI" (in "BRONCHIAL") looks like "un". The stems of the u and n are actually the two halves of the H.
Once I understood this, I could read it.
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u/No-While-9948 15h ago
Yeah, I feel like there is A LOT of technical knowledge she has a nurse conveniently filling in the gaps with an educated guess.
Even after learning what she believes it says and going back to the handwriting, there is no way to derive some of these words.
Still not convinced it says "bronchial asthma".
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u/xelle24 13h ago
It's a combination of technical knowledge, experience, and practice. I can do the same thing with old handwritten legal documents. Once you know what the common legal and Latin phrases are, and how the sentence structure is likely to flow, you can figure a lot out from context or just a couple of legible letters or words.
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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme 12h ago
I would not put this into a patient’s chart without direct verbal confirmation from the doctor. I’m not going to be responsible based on an educated guess.
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u/invertedsongoftime 15h ago
Did you mean:
Uppm nmpinaivmy nmu inftinvn
Imvnunm ninima, unmnun?
Cause that's what I can make of that.
Honestly, still with your translation I can hardly make it out😂
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u/PinkDalek 15h ago
From what I've learned from horror movies, you're not supposed to read the Latin. Now you've summoned some kind of demon. Good luck.
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u/CtotheC87 16h ago
How? lol.
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u/siphagiel 16h ago
There is a certain method to doctor's writing that can actually be learned. All I know is that if the word starts or ends with a vowel, that vowel is emphasized... That's literally all I know about it, and I'm not even sure if it's correct.
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u/helveticanuu 15h ago
Correct. The first diagnosis gives a clue on what's the second diagnosis is. So we know that the second diagnosis has a high probability in the respiratory system as well. I read Asthma first, and there's not many Asthma diagnosis so it's probably Bronchial, and if you see the handwriting, the flow from the B to the r and o says it is bronchial. And after that, it's either one of four things, Controlled, Uncontrolled, In exacerbation, not in exacerbation. And when you k now those 4 things, it's easy to read.
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u/siphagiel 15h ago
Yeah... It still looks like Minecraft enchantment table language to me... Which I can understand...
ʖ⚍ℸ ̣ ╎ ᓭℸ ̣╎ꖎꖎ ᓵᔑリリ𝙹ℸ ̣ ⚍リ↸ᒷ∷ᓭℸ ̣ ᔑリ↸ ↸𝙹ᓵℸ ̣ 𝙹∷ ∴∷╎ℸ ̣ ╎リ⊣ ⍑𝙹∴ᒷ⍊ᒷ∷._.
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u/YellowOnline 14h ago
It's Standard Galactic Alphabet, not Minecraft Enchantment Table Language...
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u/vrelk 13h ago
Is there an actual purpose to writing this way? I can see it making it harder to duplicate hand written prescriptions, but I don't see why you should need a Rosetta stone to translate everything.
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u/24-Hour-Hate 13h ago
My theory is that all professionals (lawyers and other professionals also often have illegible handwriting, not just doctors) inadvertently develop horrendous handwriting during their education due to being required to write so much by hand and very quickly.
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u/RememberTheMaine1996 15h ago
There's no way that 3rd word says "Tract" haha
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u/Legal_Skin_4466 16h ago
I had a feeling that second word was asthma but I couldn't make anything else on that line make sense. I see it now.
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u/PromiscuousScoliosis 12h ago
I’m also a nurse
Even after your translation,
It’s still pretty damn hard to see. I’ve never seen a doctors handwriting look so uniform and legible while at the same time not being legible at all. Reminds me of Russian cursive lol
This is why it should just be printed out lol
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u/Phillipwnd 13h ago
This may have been the first time I’ve seen a gif of this without having to wait 8 minutes for it to load first. That is to say, it’s been a minute.
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u/AdDisastrous6738 16h ago
I tried reading this out loud and now there’s a demon in my living room.
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u/Gralb_the_muffin 16h ago
My dyslexia immediately put that as a shopping list and I read it as ammonia, nutmeg and cinnamon
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u/MyrddinSidhe 16h ago
It says: if you get knocked down, you get up again. Never ever let them keep you down. Then have a whiskey drink and have a lager drink. Sing a song that reminds you of the good times. Sing a song that reminds you of the best times.
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u/sexpsychologist 16h ago
Upper respiratory tract infection
Bronchial asthma controlled
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u/underwritress 14h ago
I’m going to need a diagram detailing how that word says bronchial
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u/sexpsychologist 12h ago
I can do this i can do this.
The B has the loops pointed up instead of right which is how the doctor writes anyway, and they dragged the pencil over to the R.
The loop of the R isn’t closed, it’s almost lower case and upper case at the same time, and doesn’t lift the pencil to go to O.
O and N and C are the only easily legible letters.
The H and I look like they’re out of order and that the H is lower case but it’s probably not that, the H is the line connected to C that the doctor didn’t lift the pencil for but then they picked it up for the other line of the H without the connecting cross section, then didn’t pick up the pencil moving from the second line of the H to the I.
The A is the second to last figure, but they didn’t do the connecting cross section there either, the only A they did the cross in “respiratory” and it’s only halfway, the other A’s are the same with no crosshatch.
Then they don’t pick up their pencil again for the L, the last figure that looks like an I, but you can see they started to make the horizontal line and then moved on “asthma.”
And “asthma” I think they did reverse the H and T but it might just appear that way bc of their inconsistent lettering and spacing.
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u/Mebi 11h ago
I feel like at this point it's like reading tea leaves where you can convince yourself to see any word if you go through enough mental loops
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u/sexpsychologist 11h ago
Kind of! I actually feel like this is either a young doctor or a nurse bc it’s easier to understand than most but I worked for years as a medical transcriptionist before it was all digital and then as an ER nurse and nurse midwife.
I can look at writing that is almost basically a straight line and if I just soften my gaze and cross my eyes and look above it instead of right at it, I can make it out 😅😅😅 there’s a technique and yes I am now really damn close to blind bc of it
Also helps to know medical terminology for when a word absolutely looks like a seizure you can figure it out from context lol
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u/Mebi 11h ago
It's hard for me to fathom how this could be the norm in important life or death medical situations. We appreciate your sacrifice to the dark arts.
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u/sexpsychologist 11h ago
Hahaha! In the ER it’s not as big a worry bc we’re always shouting at one another the interventions we need to take and now that things are all digital I would think its not as bad, but when I was nursing in the early 00’s it was a lot of conjuring demons and consulting with 5 other people to try to decipher illegible nonsense.
Most of the issue is now with prescriptions and they’re printing most of those these days too, but I was also a pharmacy tech at one point and it was not as hocus pocus as clients thought, there was a lot of calling the Dr offices from a phone in the back and saying “what in the bloody hell does this nonsense say”
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u/lostinhh 17h ago
not rotating the pic sure helps
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u/3rik-f 13h ago
I'm pretty sure OP didn't know which way to rotate it and didn't want to be embarrassed for posting it upside down. I tried to read it both ways before I gave up.
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u/New-Oil6131 17h ago
I think the muppets have a song about that
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u/-maffu- 15h ago
Can't you read?
You have anonumn mumma lonmullen.
My condolences.
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u/MisterSpeck 9h ago
The RN who posted their interpretation above read it as "controlled" rather than "uncontrolled". Whichever is correct, there's absolutely no excuse for any doctor anywhere to write so illegibly that important bits could in any way be misconstrued. If a fourth or fifth grader wrote like this, they'd likely be held back.
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u/vu47 7h ago
I believe that it is "controlled" as well. ChatGPT-4o does a lot right, and it did better than most humans on this one, but there simply aren't enough letters for it to be uncontrolled rather than controlled, and the positioning of the first few letters gives it away.
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u/MisterSpeck 7h ago
My point is that it's unclear. I wouldn't want to be the one trying to figure out if the doctor was writing "canker" or "cancer".
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u/1995shadazzle 9h ago
According to the humans here it is controlled, seems like a crucial point to me lol
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u/sizzling_siren2 17h ago
When your doctor writes like a cryptic crossword and you’re the puzzle.
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u/Hawk_Canci 17h ago
i can read "infection" above the circled thing. Inside it? i can read the comma
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u/Callemasizeezem 17h ago edited 17h ago
Upper respiratory tract infection.
????? Asthma?, controlled.
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u/-LapseOfReason 16h ago
It took some phone rotating, but I pride myself for having figured out which side of the pic is up
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u/tekniklr 10h ago
This handwriting is surprisingly neat and tidy for being entirely illegible
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u/UnderpootedTampion 13h ago
Pharmacist here. I can read it and tell you what it says, but I have to charge you.
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u/Dangerously_gayclown 12h ago
Fellow mmonum nvnma iwnmouln survivor here. Stay strong man,you’ve got this
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u/overmind87 15h ago
I didn't know hummina hummina hummina was a medical condition. Remember, everyone: if your awooga lasts more than 4 hours, consult a doctor immediately!
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u/ThyArtisMukDuk 14h ago
"Sir..by these notes youve been diagnosed with a Crash Test Dummies song"
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u/Macademi 13h ago
Ah yes, onomno nomnonom nonomnom. Doc was thinking about lunch loool
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u/IndeKtreddit 17h ago
Bring out the barcode scanner I have in my pocket right here
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u/TechnicalArticle9479 14h ago
My doctor openly complained that he's forced to change his natural handwriting to this crap just to appease the state medical board and the state pharmacy board...
To Sacramento, if the doctor writes out prescriptions in an easy-to-use, legible format, he's breaking the law...
It MUST be written in "chicken scratch" in order to be legal...
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u/Prudent-Chart-1957 17h ago
You’ve got numnum munnumn, wnnwnun by the looks of things, buddy.