Intention Tremor

I can't even write my name properly.

Note: WRITE, not type.

With the advent of technology and also since I entered clinical school, all I ever write was some notes taken during lecture (not much), history from patient and that would be all.

We have to do at least one case write up for every posting but we were ALWAYS allowed to type them, except in Paeds, Psy and Anaest.

My Psy supervisor was kind enough (or he just couldn't care less) to let us type our CWU.

Not so lucky with Paeds and Anaest though.

My writing used to be nice (heck lots of people complimented me on it) but now I am happy enough if my writings are legible.

I refuse to become one of the doctors with illegible writing that all students, nurses secretly cursed or whom specialists and consultants scolded. I mean we can't really blame them coz when you have to see so many patients a day, ensuring your writing is nice isnt one of your priority.

Back to the point:

I had to HANDWRITE my Paeds CWU in two days last year. That was because I decided the first copy wasn't good enough and I had a deadline to catch. I think my hands were shaking by the time I finished it.

 

I guess I didn't learnt my lesson well.

This time around, we had to do one CWU and another handwritten assignment.

For the past 20 hours, I have written 20 pages long of CWU, with 2 hours of lecture, 2 hours of sleep and 1 hour of teaching in between.

Apart from that, my hands were busy copying my CWU from laptop to paper.

I am having very bad intention tremor now. I am thinking how on earth people write so many write ups in the past, especially if it's a complicated case.

And I think I know why most doctors (note: not ALL) have illegible writing. That was because they had to write so much in a short duration.

I am just glad that I don't have to write my CWU in the near future.

Or I should try to be like everyone else, i.e to do CWU early, and pick a simpler case / be less OCD.