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no-worse-than-others · berwick1996doctors-handwriting

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no-worse-than-others
Assertion
In a timed 10-second writing task among 209 health care professionals (82 of them doctors), doctors' handwriting was no less legible than that of non-doctors; lower legibility was associated with being an executive and being male.
Quote
This study fails to support the conventional wisdom that doctors' handwriting is worse than others.
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