Doctors Notes

Currently on my Cardio placement and am really enjoying the many challenges. This week I was going to reflect on a specific treatment session, however I have a more pressing issue....Doctors notes. I don't know about the rest of you but I am having an ongoing frustration trying to read Doctors handwriting. It is a frustration because it takes a lot longer when documenting, and I feel I am continually asking other staff to help decifer their writing. My supervisor assures me that I will get to become more accustomed to styles of writing and in time be better at reading. Irrespective of this explanation I cannot fathom how every allied health personnel that documents an entry in the patients notes are always legible, and yet the vast majority of doctors writing is nothing short of appalling. I have even heard anecdotal stories from nurses about adminisistering wrong medication due to poor notation. I reckon I might be better off taking a crash course in hieroglyphics so I can decifer their scribble. When talking to some of my other colleagues about it during the week, a number of suggestions were raised to help counter this problem, eg there is technology out there like voice recognition which converts to type, and programs that when wrting on a screen converts it into a type font. Now that would be fantastic if this could be applied somehow. If anyone else shares this same frustration or moreover has any input into how I can tackle this issue then I would really like to hear.