[Magdalen] Music question

[Jon Egger]

We were taught Palmer method in grade school in the mid 1960s.  I suffered
mightily because I preferred printing and print to this day.  It is sloppy
and hard to read.  My signature is a sprawl of lines and loops.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 8:15 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
>



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