Well...here in the Philippines, too...so hard to understand, (in fairness, not all of them, just some nurses, aw sorry for the doctors...they have the worst handwriting in the world!, like they took special class to learn how to write illegibly!) i need to ask most of them to tell me what they wrote!

Like this is already expected from them to have this kind of handwriting?!  Very dangerous, it could cause misunderstanding/ or miscommunication, and possibly endangering the patient's life.

I guess its about time that we should do something about this...

loricatus, I think, you theory is true. I though, that Russian doctors have an awful handwrite because of they wrote too a lot and too fast in university. But if doctors all over the world write illegible, there are some other reason for it, for example, you theory - it looks true!
Thank you both

That's why I always print when writing nurses' notes or anything else.  Takes a little more time, but no one has problems understanding what I write. I learned that in engineering classes -

Andrey says ...

 

RNdude, but why an awful handwriting have concretely doctors?

 

Andrey, I'm not really sure what you're asking?

I have found that I have the same problem. The faster I write, the worse my handwriting gets.

As for the docs, they take a class in med school called chicken scratch 101.