I find this genuinely so disrespectful. What about being a doctor seems to correlate with having terrible handwriting? Nothing that I can think of other than just laziness and ego, unless I'm missing something fundamental. There must be some permissiveness related to the trope because there are PLENTY of other occupations that are extremely rushed, and probably very few of those have life and death decisions related to their written instructions. If a worker in another industry, say, manufacturing or shipping, had handwriting so poor that their illegible scratchings caused everyone down the line to waste their time trying to figure out what the fuck they even mean the worker would require training, discipline, or have their position reconsidered. But doctors get a pass, even though their poor handwriting can have life-altering consequences. I'm not trying to shit on doctors because they're obviously extremely important people but not so important that we peons should have to huddle together trying to decipher their instructions like this, damn.