Why do doctors like writing gobbledygook? And the person in charge of taking medicine can understand it!

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As a surgeon, I have been paying attention to this problem for several days and have never spoken. I just want to see your opinion on this matter first. After reading it, I feel that there are still some misunderstandings. Let me talk about my understanding today.

Doctor's handwriting is a common phenomenon, but it is not an absolute phenomenon. At least the doctors I contacted still have a lot of neat handwriting. Moreover, scribbling is just a phenomenon, not intentional. For example, the inference that "in order to let patients buy drugs in our hospital, to prevent patients from reading the prescriptions prescribed by doctors and to increase the drug income of the hospital" is basically untenable, because most patients still choose to take drugs in the hospital (many drugs are only available in hospitals, and pharmacies are difficult to buy, so it is obviously more convenient to go to the hospital pharmacy to get drugs immediately after seeing a doctor in the hospital). In addition, most doctors are too busy to see the clinic and care where you get the medicine.

How did the doctor's scrawl come from? In fact, there are no trade secrets at all, but he is busy. You may think, how can you be too busy to write well? Let me tell you, many doctors have to see 40 or even 60 patients in an outpatient clinic in the morning (8: 00- 12: 00). Every patient has to ask medical history, physical examination, write outpatient medical records, write prescriptions, and some patients still pester you. Imagine that you are not in the mood to write the words neatly one by one. Decades of this kind of work, so the handwriting is more and more scribbled.

The doctor's handwriting is so scrawled, how can the pharmacist understand it? As the third cousin said, "people didn't write it for you at all", because there are many abbreviations or Latin in the doctor's prescription, and a layman without professional training may not understand it even if he prints it out for you.

For example: TAT 1500u X 1.

Sign. 1500u im st！

The pharmacist knows what it means at a glance, that is, a tetanus shot.

On the other hand, China's Law on Medical Practitioners stipulates the practice place of doctors, and most doctors will not change jobs frequently. So doctors, nurses and pharmacists have a long-term cooperative relationship. In the process of scribbling, doctors have been exploring the bottom line of pharmacists. He can still understand when I scribble. I'll scribble more next time. (haha, joking). However, at least after so many years of running-in, even if a few words are not clear, plus the context in the prescription, they can always be understood.

However, at present, most outpatient prescriptions in domestic 3A hospitals are printed, and doctors only need to sign by hand, so this phenomenon will be obviously improved.

The above situation is my personal understanding. There is no theoretical basis.