[Magdalen] Music question

[Jay Weigel]

I think it was the hospital at Stanford that offered a handwriting class
for physicians. Unfortunately they made it optional :(

My sister-in-law went to medical school at Mayo. Her writing is beautiful
and precise...but then, so is everything else she does. My brother the
doctor (the one she's married to) is ambidextrous....writes, eats, and bats
left, throws right, and is also an amazing musician. His handwriting is
small but legible, and is anything but what they taught us in school. My
other brother (the lawyer) has tall angular handwriting. He's a rightie and
his penmanship also doesn't look like anything they taught us in school,
but is legible. I'm the scrawler.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Jim Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net> wrote:

> Mayo Clinic used to require physicians and nurses to pass a handwriting
> test before they could be hired.  Mayo kept meticulous records for research
> purposes, and if writing wasn't legible, it was unacceptable.
>
> Jim Handsfield
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Nov 20, 2016, at 9:52 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > One size doesn't fit all in this case.  My handwriting and that of my
> > father
> > and brothers (two physicians and two lawyers) is good.  I did dabble  for
> > awhile with uncials and italics but didn't follow through with it.
> >
> > I never had, in 50 years of prescription writing, a complaint by a
> > pharmacist.  Then, again in another few years, no one will write
> > prescriptions.  It will all be electronic.
>
>