TY - JOUR T1 - Legibility of doctors’ handwriting is as good (or bad) as everyone else’s JF - Quality and Safety in Health Care JO - Qual Saf Health Care SP - 445 LP - 445 DO - 10.1136/qshc.2006.018911 VL - 15 IS - 6 AU - K A Schneider AU - C W Murray AU - R D Shadduck AU - D G Meyers Y1 - 2006/12/01 UR - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/15/6/445.1.abstract N2 - Doctors have a reputation for illegible handwriting. Is such notoriety deserved? With approval of the Kansas University Human Subjects Committee, we recruited 10 right-handed men and 10 right-handed women with seven different occupations (accountant, attorney, automobile technician, builder, engineer, doctor and scientist). Participants wrote in cursive “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” in <17 s. The number of malformed individual letters was judged by an investigator, blinded to participant … ER -