When You Try to Read the Doctor's Handwriting

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  • @gennik7966
    @gennik7966 2 года назад +17280

    I think this is the first time I audibly luaghed at one of your skits. Very good punchline

    • @astra6016
      @astra6016 2 года назад +16

      I think I’m stupid I don’t get it

    • @gennik7966
      @gennik7966 2 года назад +204

      @@astra6016 The joke is that the prescription is unreadable (a common joke in America is how doctors writing is unlegible). The patient brings it to another doctor but he also cant read it. He realizes that it was misspelled and fixes it with a single line. To us its still unreadable but the doctors can perfectly understand it.

    • @astra6016
      @astra6016 2 года назад +19

      @@gennik7966 Ah, okay! Thank you!

    • @detendeten
      @detendeten 2 года назад +9

      You poor thing

    • @sheilayoung9082
      @sheilayoung9082 2 года назад +3

      😆😆😆😆😆

  • @atiqahdiyana5665
    @atiqahdiyana5665 2 года назад +62510

    Ok no joke. I once brought a prescription to my pharmacy but the writing was so bad that the pharmacists passed it among themselves trying to figure out what it said. There were at least 3 pharmacists standing behind the counter trying to read it until this much older pharmacist came out, glanced at the prescription and named the drug they needed instantly. I laughed my head off all the way home (not American)

    • @lolizima2194
      @lolizima2194 2 года назад +4517

      Sometimes when it's near the hospital they in years start to learn how each of the doctors write :)

    • @victorious1929
      @victorious1929 2 года назад +3461

      As a nurse, I swear these doctor’s hand writing needs help. I get calls from the pharmacist all day.

    • @jenlovesgreen
      @jenlovesgreen 2 года назад +2156

      All the pharmacy techs used to pass illegible scripts around before we consulted the pharmacist. There have been so many scripts that were just two little squiggles and a line, and the pharmacist was like "oh they want Robaxin" and you just look at them stunned.

    • @nikki1400
      @nikki1400 2 года назад +444

      Yea, ive had to help a pharmacist or two out on what the heck im having prescribed.

    • @notthesquish5962
      @notthesquish5962 2 года назад +59

      LOLLL

  • @sagaramskp
    @sagaramskp 2 года назад +3571

    During my post graduation days after med school, i had this junior resident with such good legible hand writing, that it used to give me chills down the spine seeing tat. It was an odd one out. Used to say tat he missed the Drs handwriting course. His case sheets looked like a cursive writing book pages and that somehow was like unprofessional 😂.

    • @q-noonkade4115
      @q-noonkade4115 2 года назад +8

      😍😍

    • @mnm2156
      @mnm2156 2 года назад +19

      mustve been a nurse

    • @keiichimorisato98
      @keiichimorisato98 2 года назад +1

      Might have been a sociopath.

    • @nancyj.ellington6407
      @nancyj.ellington6407 2 года назад +82

      Back in the day a cardio vascular surgeon printed as quickly as most could do script. The print was almost as precise as a typewriter. He was my hero...

    • @Your_Local_Moron
      @Your_Local_Moron Год назад +18

      You said tat twice, you know it's that right lmao

  • @angelrios5897
    @angelrios5897 2 года назад +14164

    When I was in pharmacy school, they legit had us take an entire class on script reading.

    • @lambai4114
      @lambai4114 2 года назад +480

      give you 5 line with a backward e as the stripe turn out it read somthing that doesn't even have a e in it

    • @KateLate____
      @KateLate____ 2 года назад +123

      Tell us more!

    • @brianfink9974
      @brianfink9974 2 года назад +71

      I always thought that it was like Gregg shorthand

    • @lucillesoriano5257
      @lucillesoriano5257 2 года назад +116

      Really? Pharmacist here and we never had that type of class, though when I was doing my internship I was able to read prescriptions. Apparently, the reason why we had to memorize generic names during my first yr was bec of Rx!

    • @jefft6975
      @jefft6975 2 года назад +20

      Ah this explains everything

  • @kailysheacoleman5018
    @kailysheacoleman5018 2 года назад +2902

    Istg! 🤣☠️💯 I was a certified pharmacy tech and I swear doctors take a class on how to write the absolute most illegible way possible in order to receive their degree, and pharmacists take a class in how to decipher said illegible nonsense. 🙄 It's a code and a conspiracy. Prove me wrong...

    • @caniscerulean
      @caniscerulean 2 года назад +147

      Someone shows up with a legible prescription for codeine, you know something is wrong.

    • @sadmermaid
      @sadmermaid 2 года назад

      They're taking furious notes while trying to read the board, for 7+ years, you're gunna end up with handwriting like that!
      Pharmacists have practice.

    • @figgynewton3138
      @figgynewton3138 2 года назад +77

      They do it in code actually, that way they know when someone is trying forge a prescription 💯

    • @tazmat3499
      @tazmat3499 2 года назад +18

      Did you take a code breaking class?

    • @mook_butt8037
      @mook_butt8037 2 года назад +53

      My dad constantly jokes that he missed the “how to write like a doctor” class in med school. I’m pretty sure I somehow attended one in my sleep, my handwriting is atrocious

  • @Leah_Edwards
    @Leah_Edwards 2 года назад +564

    I always wondered how my mom could read my doctor's handwriting, turns out she was a pharmacist before I was born

  • @Bluehoshiflower
    @Bluehoshiflower 2 года назад +9910

    The fun ended when we have started to use e-prescriptions, lol

    • @armin66
      @armin66 2 года назад +8

      Wait you don't ? 😐

    • @Bluehoshiflower
      @Bluehoshiflower 2 года назад +6

      @@armin66 Hm?

    • @niceboi6364
      @niceboi6364 2 года назад +209

      As an expharmacist in a 3rd world country these are a pain in the ass to validate and people often try to give fake or altered prescriptions on antibiotics that have incorrect doses. It's especially really upsetting when you realize the patient is pediatric and what parents try to give to their kids causes more harm than good. I'll let you imagine how obnoxious some parents can be in that matter.

    • @Bluehoshiflower
      @Bluehoshiflower 2 года назад +7

      @@niceboi6364 Why is hard to validate e-prescriptions in your country?

    • @williamrobinson6377
      @williamrobinson6377 2 года назад +52

      @@Bluehoshiflower "e-scripts" are given to patients online, versus seeing a doctor in person. Therefore people counterfeit the e-scripts to try and get drugs without a real doctor writing them. It's hard to source where the script came from

  • @sweetkittykat2000
    @sweetkittykat2000 2 года назад +2438

    This is painfully accurate. When I read orders from the doctor, I have to employ the help of everyone around me to decipher the doctor's handwriting. We just pass the order around trying to make out the words until we think we've cracked the code.
    It's even worse because I work at night, so I can't even ask the doctor that wrote the order what their chicken scratch means 🙃

    • @Johny_boi-The_second
      @Johny_boi-The_second 2 года назад +34

      It is what it is , and it is chicken scratch ☠️

    • @armedpreacher
      @armedpreacher 2 года назад +16

      You’d think people with a Doctorate would be able to write legibly lol

    • @jonaza2105
      @jonaza2105 2 года назад +5

      @@armedpreacher I've been in uni for about 2 years now and haven't used my pen a single time outside of exams lol. Everything is digital nowadays.

    • @basketchaos
      @basketchaos 2 года назад +5

      @@armedpreacher From what I’ve heard, many (if not all?) medical doctors are actually required to take a course to write “badly” so that their handwriting can’t be copied too easily

    • @armedpreacher
      @armedpreacher 2 года назад +5

      @@basketchaos I’m a nurse.. and that’s totally not accurate lol

  • @Moonshine-o7x
    @Moonshine-o7x 2 года назад +2190

    I swear , my elder cousin used to do calligraphy and her handwriting used to be so pretty, like a font and now she is a doctor , and I can't read what her writing says anymore. I think doctors have to exchange their handwriting skills for medical license

    • @Tonia897
      @Tonia897 Год назад +111

      Fun fact, it's actually shorthand, not bad handwriting. That said, writing shorthand like this all day, might effect your handwriting in general

    • @riolu477
      @riolu477 Год назад +50

      Funfact, when you say your name they can check on their computer what your prescription is places with this setup sometimes the doctor swnds the unreadable stuff, so that the patient themselves dont know what they are getting until they get to the pharmacy, this prevents addicts from knowing what they are gettinh

    • @MeMoeMustafaAlnour
      @MeMoeMustafaAlnour Год назад +9

      It was either that or their souls, sounds fair to me 🤷🏾‍♂️

    • @blackaqua9298
      @blackaqua9298 Год назад +7

      ​@@Tonia897we thought it was a shorthand too, but it wasn't
      -pharmacy student

    • @dascherofficial
      @dascherofficial Год назад +2

      ​@@riolu477 so much for informed consent.

  • @arch1ved847
    @arch1ved847 2 года назад +2793

    Doctors be like: go grab this medication and here's this cool line i drew

  • @msacco9812
    @msacco9812 2 года назад +4632

    I had a beautiful handwriting when I started the Med school....25 years later, sometimes I don't even understand my own writing...

    • @justsomeannoyingguy404
      @justsomeannoyingguy404 2 года назад +214

      Yep the side effect of writing too fast And tried to kept up with the professor

    • @loudeletraz5485
      @loudeletraz5485 2 года назад +57

      Yep med school does that to ya 😂

    • @lh2988
      @lh2988 2 года назад +43

      It’s because they have to write fast why the handwriting so terrible or it’s a secret code 😂

    • @iyaayas
      @iyaayas 2 года назад +21

      I'd be typing everything in med school. I've thanked my typing teacher for her training me several times since growing up. I'm slower on the phone but voice recording and typing in my notepad still work as a replacement.

    • @shristisinha9066
      @shristisinha9066 2 года назад +32

      I don't even write full sentences or words anymore,it takes too long. My notes are coded , after few months even I don't remember what did I write 😅🤣

  • @thegems6825
    @thegems6825 2 года назад +315

    So I got a prescription for my dermatitis and it was basically a wavy line with little peaks and the pharmacist looked at it and said "give me the Biosul soap" and I straight up said "YOU CAN READ THAT?!?!"

    • @violet_nina
      @violet_nina Год назад +1

      Ayyyyyyyy you got dermatitis too?

    • @thegems6825
      @thegems6825 Год назад +2

      @@violet_nina yassss let us join together in suffering

    • @violet_nina
      @violet_nina Год назад +1

      @@thegems6825 YAAAAAASSSSSSSS

    • @taknilussier5275
      @taknilussier5275 9 месяцев назад

      So are guys still alive??

    • @thegems6825
      @thegems6825 9 месяцев назад

      @@taknilussier5275 yes

  • @MissJean63
    @MissJean63 2 года назад +9477

    In the early 80’s, my job was to approve prescriptions at the county hospital. I tried to get bilingual pay because I could speak “Pharmanese!” I was denied.

    • @k.j.l.t.
      @k.j.l.t. 2 года назад +155

      This is gold 👌🏾 thank you 🤣

    • @tyu951
      @tyu951 2 года назад +56

      Bilingual pay?

    • @teresaf991
      @teresaf991 2 года назад +18

      That's funny.

    • @teresaf991
      @teresaf991 2 года назад +114

      @@tyu951 yeah. That was a thing. When employers paid you more for the extra skills other workers didn't possess. Or working graveyard. Because who would want that. That wouldn't go offer well in many parts of this country. (My Asian coworkers just tell customers they only speak English. Lol. And I was fired once 1st day on the job because the FT. Worth TX water dept assumed I spoke Spanish. Italian name or my tan. Who knows.)

    • @TheLocomono9
      @TheLocomono9 2 года назад +16

      @@teresaf991 as a insomniac I worked graveyard (not hospital) and preferred it because it was the only time I knew I would be awake

  • @Helen3691
    @Helen3691 2 года назад +1441

    One of my favorite games at work is to decipher doctor’s handwriting and/or ID the patient when doc writes “John Smith”.

    • @kridswonderhowell4541
      @kridswonderhowell4541 2 года назад +5

      This meme link picture is hysterical!

    • @covnicorn
      @covnicorn 2 года назад

      Try learing Greg shorthand writing

    • @Helen3691
      @Helen3691 2 года назад

      @@covnicorn I learned it in high school. The first thing I wrote was Led Zeppelin. And that tells you how long ago it was. 😆

    • @robertabray-enhus3198
      @robertabray-enhus3198 2 года назад

      We did too! The pharmacists would try to work out the scripts,and then they’d bring it to us,the techs to give it a try.
      Lol. Eventually on those the doc would get a phone call

  • @Cassiee102
    @Cassiee102 Год назад +56

    I worked with a doctor that would come to me to decipher his own writing. Loved the guy

    • @slcRN1971
      @slcRN1971 Год назад +5

      Also had a doctor that did that. There was one doctor whose handwriting was so awful, that even he had trouble reading what he had written!! One shift a doctor I’d worked with for several years, asked me when did I get my MD degree - - he looked up and stated that the verbal orders that I’d written were barely legible, uhmmmmm - - well, it had been a very crazy hectic day.

  • @JudyE13
    @JudyE13 2 года назад +1321

    As a RN for 30 years I remember this all too well, always calling doc to verify prescription.

    • @nancymeehan3874
      @nancymeehan3874 2 года назад +27

      I called a doctor and said I couldn't read the order and he said, "Find me a nurse who can read." I wanted to say, "Find me a doctor who can write " I didn't because I would have been in big trouble.

    • @myfavs253
      @myfavs253 2 года назад

      I got pretty good at reading doctor scribbles. So good that supervisors would bring me the orders from other departments.🤣

    • @kayade5305
      @kayade5305 2 года назад +7

      @@nancymeehan3874 You should've said it. Doctors are not the bosses of nurses and any verbal disrespect should not be tolerated.

    • @nancymeehan3874
      @nancymeehan3874 2 года назад +5

      @@kayade5305 This was in the 1970''s. I would have been fired. Doctors were the bosses of nurses. Not officially but what the doctor said was to be obeyed. We have made progress.

    • @khaotictrash
      @khaotictrash 2 года назад

      My mom has been an RN for over 20 years and she’s told me funny stories about trying to decipher doctor’s notes 😂😂

  • @mamaaliaz9236
    @mamaaliaz9236 2 года назад +1530

    I was once unable to read my own writing, how bout that 🤣

    • @missnaomi613
      @missnaomi613 2 года назад +32

      Oh, that happened to my dad (a doctor) a few times. Ah, the memories...

    • @Kiki-reads
      @Kiki-reads 2 года назад +103

      Same, when I’d be studying in university occasionally I’d look at my lectures notes like ?!?? I’d skip words or shorten them thinking “future me will know/remember”. Future me did not. 🤣

    • @iforgotmyname8382
      @iforgotmyname8382 2 года назад +6

      Once? This happens to me always the only person who can read my handwriting is my teacher

    • @hadiqakhalique2503
      @hadiqakhalique2503 2 года назад +1

      Same 😂

    • @Echokeres
      @Echokeres 2 года назад +2

      Only once? Shit 🗿

  • @JESShatt44
    @JESShatt44 2 года назад +86

    My dad is an old school pharmacist. There is nothing that man can’t decipher.

  • @louisemcdonald8613
    @louisemcdonald8613 2 года назад +250

    You'd need a degree in dead languages to read some of the Drs writing at my hospital

    • @JennaLeigh
      @JennaLeigh 2 года назад +10

      That made me cackle like a witch!😂🤣 "Dr. Smith, I understand that Mrs. Miller needs her Metformin, but did you have to write the prescription in Sanskrit?"

    • @JadeSama
      @JadeSama 2 года назад +4

      My PIC writes in some kind of cuneiform...

    • @akuaaso
      @akuaaso 2 года назад

      I tell ya

    • @paramsaha1292
      @paramsaha1292 2 года назад

      @@JennaLeigh Sanskrit isint a dead language

    • @JennaLeigh
      @JennaLeigh 2 года назад

      @@paramsaha1292 well aware. I was being facetious and referring to hard to transcribe/not commonly known languages. Latin is a dead language, but the vast majority of medical terminology is IN Latin, so that wouldn't have made sense!

  • @vaibhavjain1010
    @vaibhavjain1010 2 года назад +176

    I once took a prescription from a dermatologist who had such beautiful handwriting..and that day i got to know that anything is possible in this world .

    • @msmariapaula23
      @msmariapaula23 2 года назад

      Too funny 🤭😂😂😂

    • @iciclecold2991
      @iciclecold2991 2 года назад

      See, I expect good handwriting from a dermatologist. Mostly because they are specialists who (to me) take extra care and precision in their job.

    • @nire3834
      @nire3834 2 года назад +1

      You found a unicorn. My dermo im pretty sure my dermo wrote in short had block letters. I could never read it. 😂

    • @chron3rpl
      @chron3rpl 2 года назад +1

      Derms rarely have a time constraint that's why the handwriting is beautiful. I scribble cause I have a lot of patients to attend to in a short amount of time - I just make sure I can read my own writing.

  • @TheHungarianTraveler
    @TheHungarianTraveler 2 года назад +2

    As a laboratory worker it gets even more exciting when they hand write a form for tests to be done on a patient. From trying to read the patient’s name to trying to figure out the potential diagnosis, tests needed, it’s a whole procedure. It gets to a point where they invent their own abbreviations and you supposed to figure that out.

  • @tiffanyw3425
    @tiffanyw3425 2 года назад +286

    I remember when I started working in the pharmacy, I couldn't read a single thing the Dr's wrote. 😄 After a while you'd get to know each doctors handwriting, until a new Dr showed up in town and then you'd be calling!

    • @infernalstan886
      @infernalstan886 2 года назад

      Why do you need to read their writing other than their signature? The rest of the info on a prescription isn't hand written

    • @christinashort1582
      @christinashort1582 2 года назад +1

      For the time being, some doctor’s still do write out the script.

    • @marialindell9874
      @marialindell9874 2 года назад +2

      @@infernalstan886 You're talking about e-prescriptions which are written on a computer to begin with.
      Normal prescriptions are written by hand, usuaally onto a form where you just fill the blank areas.
      Most places use a combination of the two or just normal hand written ones.

    • @jefft6975
      @jefft6975 2 года назад

      So its that bad 😂😂

    • @ajwest5569
      @ajwest5569 2 года назад +1

      ive been a pharm tech for a year now and my pharmacists and i are constantly asking each other for another pair of eyes on handwritten prescriptions. "is this supposed to say prn or 1 refill?" "does this look like bid or qid to you?" "any idea what they wrote for? i want to say it's toprol except that p looks like the letter m..."

  • @ashleynivelo7421
    @ashleynivelo7421 2 года назад +2753

    "That'll be $15 :)"
    "Ok, here u go"
    "Thanks, now your medication would be... $8, please :)"

    • @KobanFFX
      @KobanFFX 2 года назад +33

      exactly what I thought!🤣🤣

    • @jaytheredpanda183
      @jaytheredpanda183 2 года назад +46

      This is america, try 80

    • @bradencarroll7332
      @bradencarroll7332 2 года назад +32

      @@jaytheredpanda183 this is actually America, try 600. Oh wait you have goodRX on your phone? Ok, try 2. For real though, that goodRX bullshit saves us so much money, and it sucks for people that don’t have phones and they’re getting literally scammed.

    • @iamnkateko_s
      @iamnkateko_s 2 года назад +1

      😂😂😂😂

    • @hectorfr
      @hectorfr 2 года назад +6

      @@bradencarroll7332 muuurica bruh! united states is just a country ,not america(35 countries) my deepest apologies for the propaganda in the school.good day.

  • @liudmiladelcastillo5581
    @liudmiladelcastillo5581 2 года назад +115

    Not only pharmacist , half of my pts don’t understand the test their Drs ordered, I understand most of them. 😂😂 (work at Radiology)

  • @AL-cg4vb
    @AL-cg4vb 2 года назад +194

    I work in a pharmacy and this is literally it. We have figures/letters that create a symbol and that's how we know what to do sometimes

    • @merry9258
      @merry9258 2 года назад

      I thought it was PCL tho

    • @JulietCastella
      @JulietCastella 2 года назад

      Like.. Acronym

    • @AL-cg4vb
      @AL-cg4vb 2 года назад +1

      @@JulietCastella an acronym implies a series of letters that all stand for a words.
      Dots and symbola aren't an acronym
      Nice try

    • @Marquee_Gaming88
      @Marquee_Gaming88 2 года назад +2

      @@JulietCastella can you translate this to actual direction
      Sig: 1 C PO TID
      Sig: 1 T PO QID
      SIG: 1 T PO Q4 -6H PRN FOR NV
      You can translate it if you work in medical field

  • @shairacambara7795
    @shairacambara7795 2 года назад +297

    I know how that feels I worked at a Dr's office and we had a dr like that we actually had a graph on the wall with his script writing and what it actually meant 😆 🤣 😂 sweet.

  • @optimisticori
    @optimisticori Год назад +34

    that is how it be sometimes. i work in a pharmacy now and i’ve gotten used to the quick and messy handwriting, and now i can just sorta figure out what it is. “that scribble looks like a T. kinda seems like it has seven letters. only this comes in that strength”
    but even then, sometimes you just gotta have the pharmacist call cuz its so damn bad

    • @jetmirzhabari8808
      @jetmirzhabari8808 6 месяцев назад

      Im in pharmacy school in 10 grade how to overcome it easier.

  • @MenialTasksAF
    @MenialTasksAF 2 года назад +66

    when both of your parents are doctors: *maniacal laughter*

    • @Gummy_Pop.
      @Gummy_Pop. 2 года назад +7

      Omg the field trip permission slips then the book challenges when you were younger
      Teacher: Ok hand this for your parents to sign to go on the field trip
      [The next day]
      Student: *comes back with a scribbled signature*
      Teacher: No I said give your parents to sign it
      Student: I..but..I did...

    • @MenialTasksAF
      @MenialTasksAF 2 года назад +5

      @@Gummy_Pop. Whenever my teachers see my parents consent signature or something they are always like: uh ok.
      u sure this yo parents signature???

    • @Sumpterdump
      @Sumpterdump 2 года назад +2

      @@MenialTasksAF did you ever ask them why doctors handwriting sucks? Would love to know

    • @MenialTasksAF
      @MenialTasksAF 2 года назад +3

      @@Sumpterdump to quote my father: "We are very busy people so we try and get things done as quick as possible so our handwriting turns from extremely neat to chicken scratch"

    • @Sumpterdump
      @Sumpterdump 2 года назад +1

      @@MenialTasksAF thats understandable, thanks

  • @heartofearthcrystals
    @heartofearthcrystals 2 года назад +78

    This one cracks me up! Of course, these days they just do everything digitally, but back when paper prescriptions were all we had I was constantly baffled by how the pharmacist is able to figure out what the scribbles meant. Lol 😂

  • @spiritualliaison123llc
    @spiritualliaison123llc 2 года назад +1

    These make me happy because they're so relatable. 😅

  • @angella9369
    @angella9369 2 года назад +185

    This is hilarious
    In addition to knowledge and experience in Medicine he's got the talent of a comedian

  • @m_a_akuma
    @m_a_akuma 2 года назад +757

    Last few times I got my prescription and they were written in beautiful cursive hand writing I thought well it's a vast world there can be exceptions

    • @pandorarose3
      @pandorarose3 2 года назад +26

      That was specialist wasn't it?????

    • @DontUNVME
      @DontUNVME 2 года назад +2

      People don't write in cursive anymore?

    • @just2botheru
      @just2botheru 2 года назад +16

      @@DontUNVME concentrate on the "beautiful".

    • @m_a_akuma
      @m_a_akuma 2 года назад +2

      @@pandorarose3 No, I was there for regular stuff so I don't think he was a specialist

    • @m_a_akuma
      @m_a_akuma 2 года назад +8

      @@DontUNVME Few people do including me but it's kind of fading away as now no cares if you write in cursive or not. One of the reasons maybe that as kids we were forced to write in that way but not anymore which happened maybe for good

  • @Soultaker7
    @Soultaker7 2 года назад +10

    Yeah. Can confirm this.
    My family doctor has chicken scratch for handwriting and, whenever I had to go fetch medication for my grandmother (she passed away eight years ago), I would find myself puzzling over what was written in the prescription. The pharmacist, on the other hand, was able to decipher it in a heartbeat as if he were Jean-François Champollion unlocking the forgotten meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
    It's like doctors and pharmacists shared a coded alphabet that is only known to the medical community for the sole purpose of bamboozling their patients.

  • @lissajedi
    @lissajedi 2 года назад +144

    As a CPhT, this cracks me up!! I have seen scripts that look kinda like that! 🤣 Thank goodness most scripts are typed or e-scripted these days.

    • @feline.equation
      @feline.equation 2 года назад

      i’m a cpht too-the ones that get me are the scripts that say totally the wrong quantity. bid x 30 d #30…..like do they not read before hitting send???

    • @JadeSama
      @JadeSama 2 года назад

      CPhT here too!
      I love it when you get use to some of the local doctors and deciphering the scripts becomes easier over time! It fun to mess with the techs in training that way!
      Also, my P.I.C. has the WORST handwriting I've ever seen. Its like some kind of weird cuneiform....

    • @robertabray-enhus3198
      @robertabray-enhus3198 2 года назад +1

      You missed out on some pharmacy fun! Lol

  • @haidykamel8838
    @haidykamel8838 2 года назад +38

    After working in the pharmacy for 5 years…this is way too accurate on so many levels.

  • @Monica-le9oi
    @Monica-le9oi 2 года назад +138

    With electronics transfer of prescriptions I have no idea what I’m taking until I get the bottle 😬 “I’ll give you something for that cough” is a huge surprise at the pharmacy 😆

    • @BJKage
      @BJKage Год назад

      That´s how it works in Europe, no paper and lots of time no money.

    • @XxXPunkXxXRockerXxX
      @XxXPunkXxXRockerXxX Год назад +2

      THEN I FOUND OUT THEY PRESCRIBED ME PROMETHAZINE/CODEINE SYRUP AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I LOVE MY DR AND THIS IS NOW A SURPRISE DRUG RUN.

    • @flappysquirrel5132
      @flappysquirrel5132 Год назад

      I'd say the e-script system cut down on calls from the pharmacy for clarification, but really it didn't, because now there's those calls, as well as patients going "hey, my meds weren't called in!"

  • @KimberlyDMcCallister
    @KimberlyDMcCallister 2 года назад +6

    I used to be a pharmacy tech and now in nursing.... when I used to get my hand written scripts I'd double check them for correct drug, dose and MATH. I would make my Doc correct it before leaving. He was awesome. He eventually had me write my scripts during the visit and he'd sign them!
    On forms for new specialists see, I write my meds in script form in the meds section! LMAO! I love seeing the nurse's face!

  • @backwoodstherapy
    @backwoodstherapy 2 года назад +239

    Just $15 for the prescription but the doctors visit was $350 lol.

    • @LordCoeCoe
      @LordCoeCoe 2 года назад +15

      Welcome to the US of A.

    • @RatedFforFUGlenda
      @RatedFforFUGlenda 2 года назад +4

      You got to use good rx lol

    • @hydradoggo5024
      @hydradoggo5024 2 года назад

      Imagine having to pay for prescribed medicine lol

    • @abingham3747
      @abingham3747 2 года назад +1

      American here. My doctor visits cost $25 for co-pay and my prescriptions are all under $5. Thanks but I'll keep my crappy American healthcare and you can keep paying outrageous taxes for your "free" heathcare.

    • @abingham3747
      @abingham3747 2 года назад +1

      @lemonssssssss4 again, American here. I have no worries. I go to work, make $115k/year. Come home, raise my daughter with my wife, sit by the pool and plan our next vacation. Pretty much living the American Dream fella.

  • @CowboyCookhouse
    @CowboyCookhouse 2 года назад +45

    "Here's your percacet, sir" I just have a sinus infection

  • @theCidisIn
    @theCidisIn 2 года назад +809

    "What's this even say!?"
    "Uh he said it was a three month supply of fentanyl patches."

    • @jenniferallen4420
      @jenniferallen4420 2 года назад +2

      Lol phew that'd be nice

    • @mamajane85
      @mamajane85 2 года назад +1

      Not even funny

    • @tonyhakston536
      @tonyhakston536 2 года назад +2

      I don’t get it

    • @benjaminallisonii724
      @benjaminallisonii724 2 года назад

      @@tonyhakston536 Fentanyl is a highly addictive pain killer drug that is extremely deadly. 100 times stronger than heroin I believe.

    • @RoseDxoggo
      @RoseDxoggo 2 года назад +5

      @@tonyhakston536 basically it’s saying that the person is trying to get away with recreational drugs

  • @infullbloom3246
    @infullbloom3246 2 года назад +67

    I worked for a dentist. His front desk employee would write allergy of the patient with capital letters and highlight it with neon yellow color pen, he still would not read them. Later on he would bit$%ch that he didn't know why her face swell from using latex goves.

    • @keshaartis8365
      @keshaartis8365 2 года назад +12

      Ugh! I have TRIED telling Drs that I'm allergic to latex, it's in my chart-multiple times, bc inevitably some Dr who thinks they know better TRIES to touch me with latex. I threatened to slap the last one that tried and it hasn't happened since. Those Drs really be showing us that they don't value us as people at all. 😭

    • @amalieshelby
      @amalieshelby 2 года назад +8

      He shouldn't be a dentist or a doctor of any type if he wont read an allergy paper for his patients because what if that killed her?

    • @amalieshelby
      @amalieshelby 2 года назад

      @@keshaartis8365 wow, some doctors think they you better than you know yourself. Yet, dont believe you till they almost kill you.

    • @Silver_wind_1987_
      @Silver_wind_1987_ 2 года назад

      @@keshaartis8365 some doctors are absolutely A@@$ holes I sware. I had a woman doctor for a womanly issue and she went to do the womanly look and since I had two golf ball sized cysed there...she was to rough and I screamed and nearly kicked her in the face. My mom said she saw the ladies hair move from how close I was to hurting the C U next Tuesday

    • @keshaartis8365
      @keshaartis8365 2 года назад

      @@amalieshelby Unfortunately for patients, there's a LOT of doctors (at least around here) who simply don't care. 💁🏽‍♀️

  • @catsend
    @catsend Год назад +10

    My mother was a doctor. When she was in med school, they threatened to kick her out, jokingly, because she had clear handwriting. Perfect. She said at least no one would be calling her at three am to find out what her orders were

  • @furrykitty2859
    @furrykitty2859 2 года назад +60

    "Ok Mr Blue, take this to the pharmacy downstairs"
    My brain for no reason:"Hey there Mr Blue, were so pleased to be with you,"

    • @Sip_Dhit
      @Sip_Dhit 2 года назад +4

      Clearly he had to hide away for so long because he couldn't read his prescription

    • @KatySueWho
      @KatySueWho 2 года назад +6

      Look around, see what you do,
      Everybody smiles at you!

    • @halimainayah3765
      @halimainayah3765 2 года назад

      😄😄

  • @katemate2696
    @katemate2696 2 года назад +35

    I love watching his beautiful teeth!

  • @DH-gk8vh
    @DH-gk8vh Год назад

    You are so awesome. You could become an actor. Seriously, this was so well done.

  • @the_loud_one9883
    @the_loud_one9883 2 года назад +38

    Yo when you said amoxicillin it actually reminded me to take my amoxicillin

  • @micahj5388
    @micahj5388 2 года назад +4

    For anyone wondering there’s a set of short hand doctors use for medicine

  • @tereseattle5287
    @tereseattle5287 2 года назад +1

    I was a Unit Secretary on a very busy hospital unit for 35 years, yes I have seen it all. Thank goodness doctors have to print out prescriptions now! Before this it took me a couple years to know the handwriting of all the doctors, but I finally got it! I swear I can read a snail trail in the sand!

  • @stevec9070
    @stevec9070 2 года назад +4

    Yes I've been waiting for a pharmacy episode this was great!! lol 😂

  • @sinthiathyme
    @sinthiathyme 2 года назад +46

    People always tell me I have a doctors handwriting 😆 sometimes I can't even read it. 😆💖

    • @anndownsouth5070
      @anndownsouth5070 Год назад +1

      Then you really have a Dr handwriting. My GP once complained about some notes on a file till the receptionist told him he made the note. These days he types and prints his scripts and just sign it.

  • @Em_Powell_KC
    @Em_Powell_KC 2 года назад

    I’ve always been amazed!

  • @astrangerwhostaysforawhile987
    @astrangerwhostaysforawhile987 2 года назад +317

    I bet they have a whole semester dedicated to decipher doctor’s writing alone.
    Btw, I could be wrong, but isn’t that shorthand writing?

    • @kris778
      @kris778 2 года назад +17

      IDK if what he’s actually writing is but the squiggles are typically short hand.
      So in a way, you are correct about spending a semester on learning Dr handwriting 😂

    • @antisocialapple7795
      @antisocialapple7795 2 года назад +4

      What is shorthand writing?

    • @arielallin1pods171
      @arielallin1pods171 2 года назад

      That's bullshit. No serious university will give a course about "how to read doctors handwriting "

    • @KITTYKITTY-
      @KITTYKITTY- 2 года назад +2

      It looked like short hand but I'm pretty sure doctors don't use shorthand...so the one in the video could be just random lines lol

    • @RitsychServare
      @RitsychServare 2 года назад +1

      That is most certainly not shorthand since the lines are stuck together.

  • @finchisneat
    @finchisneat Год назад +7

    "ohhh you spelled it wrong"
    **Adds a tiny line**
    "There you go..."
    😆

  • @cheyenneinseoul2136
    @cheyenneinseoul2136 2 года назад +1

    As a Pharm Tech who takes in physical scripts all the time, this one got me. Sometimes we just have to pass around the script to try to decipher what the doctor wants. Calling the office to confirm the sig can be painful! We have to call the same number as the patient. We are on hold for sometimes over and hour just to find out its telling us it’s amoxicillin.

  • @csk2799
    @csk2799 2 года назад +29

    I work at a pharmacy, everytime I see a person walk through the door with a prescription on their hand I die a little.

  • @english3175
    @english3175 2 года назад +70

    "Oh yeah and that medicine you need will cost you your left kidney and a toe"

    • @jimhardiman7735
      @jimhardiman7735 2 года назад +2

      Only if its a very rare medicine...

    • @desko118
      @desko118 2 года назад +1

      I don't get it

    • @english3175
      @english3175 2 года назад +2

      @@desko118 don't get what, the joke or the "left kidney and a toe"?

    • @Hosigie
      @Hosigie 2 года назад

      @@jimhardiman7735 what do you mean, a rare medicine? You know medicine isn't found in Earth's crust like diamonds? It gets made in a lab and cost for producing it in high quantity is really low. There's no need for the cost of it to be high. I'm Croatian, have Lupus, Hashimoto's, anemia, lots of deficiencies and gastritis and I take 8 pills a day. All of which are free, but Euthyrox that I pay 0.3 dollars for a box that lasts me over a month. I go to a hospital twice a week, all my visits are completely free. Had multiple surgeries, with week long stays in the hospital, everything was completely free. Every single Croatian is required by law to have health insurance that covers everything. And it's around 70 dollars a month and gets taken out of our paycheck as tax. There's never a reason to make healthcare inaccessible to people, but profit and taking advantage of sick people. If you really think this system is okay, you're welcome to move to any European country and experience what healthcare should look like, so you can compare.

    • @jimhardiman7735
      @jimhardiman7735 2 года назад

      @@Hosigie By the way, I have free healthcare. Takes 6 months to schedule a fucking doctors appointment. And just to let you know. The United States has better health care than your country. They have doctors that go to school twice as long as yours and those doctors make 3 times what any doctor in your country makes.

  • @jeanettewasick2156
    @jeanettewasick2156 Год назад +1

    I worked in pharmacy, and sometimes that's so true.

  • @prettybrowneyez3338
    @prettybrowneyez3338 2 года назад +4

    "You spelled it wrong." 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤣🤣

  • @sageof6pokemon112
    @sageof6pokemon112 2 года назад +79

    “That’ll be 15$”
    “For the medication?”
    “No for the added line with a sharpie ”
    “WHAT”
    “Yea I know so cheap am I right America has such a great healthcare system”

    • @kelseywelsey2924
      @kelseywelsey2924 2 года назад +1

      I pay $30 to see a good dr and $5 for my meds.. in America there are choices for decent healthcare and I only pay $50 a month 🤷‍♀️

  • @rhyscummings222
    @rhyscummings222 Год назад

    I remember reading the shorthand for this kind of thing forever ago, but it still amazes me that it's such a complex yet simple system

  • @Maggotroni
    @Maggotroni 2 года назад +42

    I was in health science last school year and one of the lessons was if we could understand doctors notes and figure out what medication and diagnosis it was, and absolutely no one could figure it out.🤣

  • @AJG854
    @AJG854 2 года назад +9

    It really is like that though 😂😂 as a pharm tech. I can confirm.

  • @mina233
    @mina233 Год назад +1

    Fortunately, there is an electronic prescription.

  • @zuri1i
    @zuri1i 2 года назад +10

    this actually happened to me, the pharmacist couldn't read my doctor's handwriting and we had to go back for him to write it again😭😭

  • @chellemedina6083
    @chellemedina6083 2 года назад +6

    😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣A Doctor’s Signature

  • @bloxburgfloridastatenewsrp2102
    @bloxburgfloridastatenewsrp2102 2 года назад +1067

    “Here ya go.”
    The prescription: *SE*
    I hate to be that person but..
    Edit: “670 likes in only 4 days?!?!?? Thanks!”

  • @notkerrystolcenberg
    @notkerrystolcenberg 2 года назад +4

    I accidentally paused this as he was first looking at the paper, and I thought that it was the video for like a minute, and it was still hilarious

  • @amye.8000
    @amye.8000 2 года назад

    This is less a 'When you try to read the doc's handwriting,' and more a "Pharmacists be like."

  • @wellthiswasfun
    @wellthiswasfun 2 года назад +8

    When i was in school i got some feedback on a paper that i couldn't read. I had to get my mom, who works for a doctor, to interpret.

  • @justalonelyhuman1819
    @justalonelyhuman1819 2 года назад +11

    ✨ I’m allergic to amoxicillin ✨

  • @Weswood956
    @Weswood956 Год назад

    Good times. Learning to read and write medical was like a whole new language for me but it’s super easy once you get it. It’s been almost 2 decades since my time in the field but I like to read my charts and get a sense for myself what condition I’m really in.

  • @Tetsujinhanmaa
    @Tetsujinhanmaa 2 года назад +5

    This is the medical equivalent of the "I speak jive" skit from 'Airplane 1979'

    • @A.H.C.
      @A.H.C. 2 года назад

      One of the best scenes ever! 🤣

  • @darrell2277
    @darrell2277 2 года назад +14

    I accidentally left this on while packing and now i have probably listened to this around 50 times😭😝

  • @aiden3627
    @aiden3627 Год назад

    I once got accidentally roasted when a receptionist saw my check in paperwork and said “you should be a doctor, you’ve got doctor handwriting!”

  • @poorlymadeartist7593
    @poorlymadeartist7593 2 года назад +13

    “OOH, I missed three zeros”

  • @churchofpos2279
    @churchofpos2279 Год назад +3

    I used to work for a Doctor, who couldn't even read his own writing. He would hand me the chart and asked me what it said. I used to tell him " how would I know? You wrote it." LOL

  • @leahwhiteley5164
    @leahwhiteley5164 Год назад

    so perfect!

  • @ferelith-NZ
    @ferelith-NZ 2 года назад +5

    New nurse & old nurse are trying to work out what a doctor has written.
    New nurse "a clue! He's put a kidney in there!"
    Old nurse "no, that's his signature."

    • @Ice.muffin
      @Ice.muffin 2 года назад

      Talking from experience?😂😂

    • @ferelith-NZ
      @ferelith-NZ 2 года назад +3

      @@Ice.muffin not kidney/signature interpretation but I have seen some handwriting that I described as a 4 year old trying to write with their non dominant hand during an earthquake.

    • @Ice.muffin
      @Ice.muffin 2 года назад +1

      @@ferelith-NZ That's funny as hell, u creative xD

  • @kdiary007
    @kdiary007 2 года назад +13

    So accurate it's not even funny I work in a pharmacy I have PTSD from this 😂 lol

  • @masonjustlikethejar201
    @masonjustlikethejar201 2 года назад

    This had me dyin'!!!

  • @hadidifatima8361
    @hadidifatima8361 2 года назад +6

    That's so true i work as a doctor assistant each time i get a letter from other doctor i had headache 😂😂 sometimes even my doctor don't get it hhhhh 😂😂😂

  • @xeroxhero5615
    @xeroxhero5615 2 года назад +14

    My mother is a pediatric MD
    After working with her on the job, a lot of things are starting to make more sense.
    Grocery lists, check signatures, birthday cards…

    • @blueotter5954
      @blueotter5954 2 года назад

      Was she unable to understand cake writings?

  • @bobreams5178
    @bobreams5178 2 года назад

    The end is hilarious!

  • @silverserpent420
    @silverserpent420 2 года назад +9

    I was always told my handwriting was so bad I should have been a Dr. 🙃

    • @Page-wb1si
      @Page-wb1si 2 года назад

      Me too

    • @sagaramskp
      @sagaramskp 2 года назад

      Me too from my school days. And finally i became one. May be i was destined by my handwriting

  • @SomeGirlLol
    @SomeGirlLol 2 года назад +5

    “It’s Amoxicillin”
    “Ohh you spelt it wrong”
    *proceeds to add a line*
    “There ya go”

  • @dragonicyeyes
    @dragonicyeyes Год назад

    OMG! This is so true it hurts!

  • @QuilloManar
    @QuilloManar 2 года назад +4

    POV: Your doctor sends you to get a script of "𝓱𝓮"

  • @aislynnn
    @aislynnn 2 года назад +8

    I’m allergic to amoxicillin, when I was a baby they gave me the medicine and my entire body swelled up and I had a rash

    • @TK-wk4hs
      @TK-wk4hs 2 года назад

      Lol sounds like you had a different kind of issues going on and you needed a different antibiotic, almost everyone who has an allergy to it was misdiagnosed as a kid and the reaction to it got them the allergy diagnosis, but do stay away from it not worth the risk of finding out if your the uncommon case

    • @Phapchamp
      @Phapchamp 2 года назад

      They should have given you aztreonam

    • @tomekpiotrek1028
      @tomekpiotrek1028 2 года назад

      U alergic to penicyline

    • @caitlinirelan5641
      @caitlinirelan5641 2 года назад +1

      My best friend is allergic to amoxicillin and the other second most common antibiotic and the doctors didn't believe her or her mom so they prescribed her amoxicillin anyways and when she had an allergic reaction they were like 😵

    • @aislynnn
      @aislynnn 2 года назад +2

      @@caitlinirelan5641 oof I hope it’s in their medical records now

  • @marjieestivill
    @marjieestivill Год назад

    Great one!

  • @gc9376
    @gc9376 2 года назад +5

    🤣🤣🤣🤣 "You spelled it wrong" then proceeds to add a line

  • @gudakobviii4735
    @gudakobviii4735 2 года назад +1

    I am a pharmacist and this is very accurate. except for the ophtalmologist who prints the prescription, all the others are almost unreadable. We however luck out sometimes with a doctor that has a very beautiful hand writing (pretty rare).

  • @shirefernandez8826
    @shirefernandez8826 2 года назад

    As a person who was raised around both military & medical & ended up as a nurse you have got to love doctor's handwritings.

  • @ligaugler4311
    @ligaugler4311 Год назад +1

    It’s just Li in cursive lol

  • @lisacatarsi1615
    @lisacatarsi1615 2 года назад

    Digital prescriptions are a blessing

  • @mikaylad.7447
    @mikaylad.7447 Год назад

    It's him adding the fucking line on the end that has me ROLLING

  • @justloadalready8839
    @justloadalready8839 Год назад +1

    I swear they were all the people who learned shorthand and collectively decided to become doctors

  • @ulzzangs2631
    @ulzzangs2631 Год назад

    i’m so happy we get escripts and slowly getting rid of paper prescriptions

  • @sallymae3631
    @sallymae3631 2 года назад

    This was great.

  • @tollish
    @tollish 2 года назад

    I had this EXACT convo.

  • @Mama_Badazh
    @Mama_Badazh 2 года назад +2

    I swear pharmacists have a class called 'Deciphering Doctor Scrawl'.