Most answers have something right. I want to add my most important reason (as a doc): Speed and repetition. It might be the most important document for that specific patient’s life, but I have already re-written like 90% of it, another 10 times that day, for months and months. I just don’t finish the word and just scribble due to fatigue of writing the same stuff over and over.
I have extremely neat handwriting. Over time I’ve noticed it’s gotten slightly worse simply because there is a lot to write (in classrooms and clinical settings) and as long as it’s legible to you and whoever reads your writing that’s all that matters. It takes too much time and effort to write perfectly. It just needs to be enough to not affect patient care.
Source: med student
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