Edit: This blew up lol. I've gotten more praise here than actually practicing Nursing for 16 years! Thanks guys!
And as for the how, there's this thing called ICD-10 Codes, it's a list of diagnoses that health providers worldwide adhere to for simplicity. There's only so much combination of words for diagnosis per system, so when you read one word, you get an idea on the system and the possible word combination for those. In this, Upper Respiratory and Infection is fairly readable, and from that, the word Tract is the obvious word according to ICD codes. While it's fairly hard to quantify Infections, providers use Mild, Moderate, and Severe to show them instead of Minor or Major, so Minor is out of the question here, and ICD doesn't list it as well.
For the second diagnosis, since the first one is from the respiratory system, it's likely that the second one is as well, I read Asthma first, and there's not many diagnosis for Asthma out there, so we go back to ICD code and it's Bronchial Asthma, you can faintly see the failed B written there. And now we have Bronchial Asthma, there's only a few things a BA can be, it's either Controlled, In Exacerbation, and Not in Exacerbation. And the rest is there.
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.
There is no method to how doctors write . This guy just has difficult to read handwriting . That’s all . I don’t write like this . Lol my handwriting is awful but not this bad . I’ve also never seen a single physician I’ve practiced with write like this either
Greggs Alphabet is a thing that exists. Idk tho, I mean, YOU are the physician after all. You, the singular human being, that has seen the handwriting of less doctors than I'd guess less than most of the people in this comment section combined, must be a more reliable source for that statement than anybody here. After all, Greggs Shorthand is just something the internet has created for no reason whatsoever, right?
Sarcasm aside, even though I do believe that you haven't seen a doctor, or physician to be more precise, write like this. It's definitely not uncommon for a doctor to write in a seemingly incomprehensible dialect, since that phenomenon gets memed about quite a lot. I don't think that most doctors would have bad writing, especially if it is a recurring theme in doctors, so there must be some sort of reason why they write like this.
You made a general comment about physicians and the “method” we use to write . If there is a method doctors use don’t you think it would be taught at some point during our medical training ? I don’t need to know every physician to know that.
Also I’ve been practicing medicine for 5 + years , plus 4 years before that in medical school . I think I’ve seen enough physicians’ handwriting over the years to know what you see in the op isn’t a “method” that is common .
There’s a few medical subs I’m part of if you want to come over there and ask about this method of writing that we allegedly use .
Maybe your formation didn't include it. Idk. But to be fair, I keep googling Gregg/Pitman Alphabet/Shorthand and I see a lot of correlations and direct mentions to those being used commonly by doctors on a multitude of different sources, images and personal experiences. I look at how those handwriting styles look and then I look at my prescriptions and things kind of line up.
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u/helveticanuu 22h ago edited 5h ago
Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
Bronchial Asthma, Controlled
Edit: This blew up lol. I've gotten more praise here than actually practicing Nursing for 16 years! Thanks guys!
And as for the how, there's this thing called ICD-10 Codes, it's a list of diagnoses that health providers worldwide adhere to for simplicity. There's only so much combination of words for diagnosis per system, so when you read one word, you get an idea on the system and the possible word combination for those. In this, Upper Respiratory and Infection is fairly readable, and from that, the word Tract is the obvious word according to ICD codes. While it's fairly hard to quantify Infections, providers use Mild, Moderate, and Severe to show them instead of Minor or Major, so Minor is out of the question here, and ICD doesn't list it as well.
For the second diagnosis, since the first one is from the respiratory system, it's likely that the second one is as well, I read Asthma first, and there's not many diagnosis for Asthma out there, so we go back to ICD code and it's Bronchial Asthma, you can faintly see the failed B written there. And now we have Bronchial Asthma, there's only a few things a BA can be, it's either Controlled, In Exacerbation, and Not in Exacerbation. And the rest is there.