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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jun 10, 2020 16:27:34 GMT -5
I believe the mangle your signatures part. JFK, I can't figure out 99% of the words they write and I'm in medical billing! The nuns would be sorely disappointed by my handwriting now. In our defense, Medicare requires original signatures, and before EMRs, good knows how many times a day i signed my name Suuuure....blame Medicare. I blame my crappy handwriting on being a lefty.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jun 10, 2020 16:30:29 GMT -5
The nuns would be sorely disappointed by my handwriting now. In our defense, Medicare requires original signatures, and before EMRs, good knows how many times a day i signed my name Suuuure....blame Medicare. I blame my crappy handwriting on being a lefty. My left handed wife has beautiful handwriting, so you are not off the hook. Why not blame medicare, they deserve it
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jun 10, 2020 16:34:32 GMT -5
Suuuure....blame Medicare. I blame my crappy handwriting on being a lefty. My left handed wife has beautiful handwriting, so you are not off the hook. Why not blame medicare, they deserve it Your wife is lucky then. It took forever just to learn to write without wearing all the ink on my hand. That was such a pain in the ass. Let's blame Medicaid too. Actually, I blame all insurances. They're so tedious sometimes.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 10, 2020 17:05:19 GMT -5
Strangely, a doctor who seems to be unable to read a scale or use a yardstick. I guess they didn’t teach that in medical school. No, they just taught us to mangle our signatures and golf. like we want to be around sick people, gross! Pretty sure you and veterinarians take a class in writing in an ancient language no mortal alive knows how to translate.🤣
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jun 10, 2020 17:09:42 GMT -5
No, they just taught us to mangle our signatures and golf. like we want to be around sick people, gross! Pretty sure you and veterinarians take a class in writing in an ancient language no mortal alive knows how to translate.🤣 No it is a language called medicalese. Difficult to understand. We also now how to speak it with shortcuts. Makes it even more difficult to understand. Throw in some fancy Greek and Latin phrases, and we sound even better. It is like a club with a special secret handshake. You are only in it if you have the right one.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jun 10, 2020 17:11:42 GMT -5
No, they just taught us to mangle our signatures and golf. like we want to be around sick people, gross! Pretty sure you and veterinarians take a class in writing in an ancient language no mortal alive knows how to translate.🤣 Nah......I had a summer job in college one year transcribing letters of a famous playwright. I think I went blind that summer. Lots of people have really crappy writing. I think I could get about 3 words out of a sentence and figure out the vast majority b6 context.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 10, 2020 17:31:33 GMT -5
My left handed wife has beautiful handwriting, so you are not off the hook. Why not blame medicare, they deserve it Your wife is lucky then. It took forever just to learn to write without wearing all the ink on my hand. That was such a pain in the ass. Let's blame Medicaid too. Actually, I blame all insurances. They're so tedious sometimes. Back in my Catholic grammar school days of the '50s and '60s, we boys had to wear long-sleeve white dress shirts with a school tie. Not a problem so much for the right-handed students but as you mentioned earlier we lefties smudged our letters on our hands and sleeves when writing in ink. Someone came up with this 'sleeve guard'. Elastic around the wrist then a clear plastic sleeve attached to the elastic and up to our elbows. Shirts protected.
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Post by NastyWoman on Jun 10, 2020 17:42:16 GMT -5
add that to the long list of stupid shit he mistakenly believes. Yeah, I hope I don't get Windmill Cancer. Don't keep stoking my fears
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Post by NastyWoman on Jun 10, 2020 17:49:49 GMT -5
Your wife is lucky then. It took forever just to learn to write without wearing all the ink on my hand. That was such a pain in the ass. Let's blame Medicaid too. Actually, I blame all insurances. They're so tedious sometimes. Back in my Catholic grammar school days of the '50s and '60s, we boys had to wear long-sleeve white dress shirts with a school tie. Not a problem so much for the right-handed students but as you mentioned earlier we lefties smudged our letters on our hands and sleeves when writing in ink. Someone came up with this 'sleeve guard'. Elastic around the wrist then a clear plastic sleeve attached to the elastic and up to our elbows. Shirts protected. This lefty, who is only a few months younger than you are, figured out in first grade that you needed to angle your paper to avoid ink smudges. Ink on my hands creeping me out may have had something to do with that...
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 10, 2020 18:11:16 GMT -5
Back in my Catholic grammar school days of the '50s and '60s, we boys had to wear long-sleeve white dress shirts with a school tie. Not a problem so much for the right-handed students but as you mentioned earlier we lefties smudged our letters on our hands and sleeves when writing in ink. Someone came up with this 'sleeve guard'. Elastic around the wrist then a clear plastic sleeve attached to the elastic and up to our elbows. Shirts protected. This lefty, who is only a few months younger than you are, figured out in first grade that you needed to angle your paper to avoid ink smudges. Ink on my hands creeping me out may have had something to do with that... If I remember correctly, our school desks had ink wells. I don't remember though if we used them.
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Post by andi9899 on Jun 10, 2020 18:28:41 GMT -5
Suuuure....blame Medicare. I blame my crappy handwriting on being a lefty. My left handed wife has beautiful handwriting, so you are not off the hook. Why not blame medicare, they deserve it My dad is a lefty and he has pretty good handwriting too. It doesn't even look like dude handwriting. You'd swear a woman wrote it.
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Post by NastyWoman on Jun 10, 2020 18:32:04 GMT -5
This lefty, who is only a few months younger than you are, figured out in first grade that you needed to angle your paper to avoid ink smudges. Ink on my hands creeping me out may have had something to do with that... If I remember correctly, our school desks had ink wells. I don't remember though if we used them. Ours did too and we did use them. We had benches that seated two and I always had a leftside seat, ink wells were in the middle. My mom prevented the nuns from trying to teach me to write right-handed. My youngesr brother (older than I am) had big problems with language and at the time that was blamed on forcing him to use his right hand. He has severe dyslexia but who knew about that at the time. Neither the teachers nor my mom, but she was not going to mess up another of her lefties - there are three of us out of seven!
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 10, 2020 19:00:03 GMT -5
If I remember correctly, our school desks had ink wells. I don't remember though if we used them. Ours did too and we did use them. We had benches that seated two and I always had a leftside seat, ink wells were in the middle. My mom prevented the nuns from trying to teach me to write right-handed. My youngesr brother (older than I am) had big problems with language and at the time that was blamed on forcing him to use his right hand. He has severe dyslexia but who knew about that at the time. Neither the teachers nor my mom, but she was not going to mess up another of her lefties - there are three of us out of seven! That's a lot of lefties in an immediate family. Beside myself, the only other lefties were a first cousin and our mutual paternal grandmother. When I would attend company HR meetings say with 25-30 employees in attendance, I would look around and count the lefties. Surprisingly, about 30% were left handed.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jun 10, 2020 19:01:09 GMT -5
Oh, boy so many lefties to keep company with! Since being left handed was “different” I practiced so much because I had the idea that my writing must somehow also be “different”. At one time it was beautiful. Since having a drafting type job, I have resorted to block letters, so way out of practice for cursive writing.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 10, 2020 19:07:33 GMT -5
Oh, boy so many lefties to keep company with! Since being left handed was “different” I practiced so much because I had the idea that my writing must somehow also be “different”. At one time it was beautiful. Since having a drafting type job, I have resorted to block letters, so way out of practice for cursive writing. The only activities I did/do right-handed was play golf and use a computer mouse. Using a computer mouse left-handed is very awkward to me.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jun 10, 2020 19:28:19 GMT -5
I have never played golf, but I have hit balls and it feels more natural left handed, but swinging a bat is right handed. I can manage a mouse left-handed as well, but use my right hand normally.
My stepson is 100% left handed EXCEPT writing. His writing is atrocious. Someone at some point forced him right handed. DH said when he was small, he naturally grabbed crayons with his left hand. Stepson is 25, so it is appalling that in this day and age, kids are still being forced to something not natural to them.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jun 11, 2020 10:37:22 GMT -5
Ours did too and we did use them. We had benches that seated two and I always had a leftside seat, ink wells were in the middle. My mom prevented the nuns from trying to teach me to write right-handed. My youngesr brother (older than I am) had big problems with language and at the time that was blamed on forcing him to use his right hand. He has severe dyslexia but who knew about that at the time. Neither the teachers nor my mom, but she was not going to mess up another of her lefties - there are three of us out of seven! That's a lot of lefties in an immediate family. Beside myself, the only other lefties were a first cousin and our mutual paternal grandmother. When I would attend company HR meetings say with 25-30 employees in attendance, I would look around and count the lefties. Surprisingly, about 30% were left handed. Huh. Me, my sister and our mother are/were left-handed. My dad was the only righty. Not that it mattered because I still could never forge his signature in high school, damn it!
I'm lefty in pretty much everything but the computer mouse. There is no way in hell I could a baseball bat right-handed. I'd swing that stupid thing into my face. I'm that special kind of klutz.
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Post by swamp on Jun 11, 2020 10:40:58 GMT -5
No, they just taught us to mangle our signatures and golf. like we want to be around sick people, gross! Pretty sure you and veterinarians take a class in writing in an ancient language no mortal alive knows how to translate.🤣 Prior to EMR and electronic prescriptions, my husband was known to track down a certain physician in the hospital, show him the script and pointedly ask, "What the fuck does this say?" yes, this doc did have a sense of humor.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jun 11, 2020 11:32:33 GMT -5
I believe the mangle your signatures part. JFK, I can't figure out 99% of the words they write and I'm in medical billing! The nuns would be sorely disappointed by my handwriting now. In our defense, Medicare requires original signatures, and before EMRs, good knows how many times a day i signed my name bad handwriting is a rite of passage in the medical profession.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jun 11, 2020 12:12:40 GMT -5
The nuns would be sorely disappointed by my handwriting now. In our defense, Medicare requires original signatures, and before EMRs, good knows how many times a day i signed my name bad handwriting is a rite of passage in the medical profession. Yes it is, mine has deteriorated, and I am not proud of it. In addition, it is a safety issue. Mine is still legible, thankfully.
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