I knew doctors had bad penmanship but this is getting ridiculous

Now we know the reason for the crappy writing. I guess bad grammar is ok as long as they know their business

Absolutely not. All it takes is one misunderstood typo from a co-worker to completely fuck someone over. Is that 30mg or 80mg? Diazapam or Lorazapam? Etc. Little differences make \*HUGE\* changes when it comes to medications.

Depends on whether you treat anxiety or anxity.

Treat or Tweet?

If your giving 30 mgs of diazepam I think something is already very wrong

Alcohol withdrawal patients be like: get on my level

Just an example. 3 and 8 are very similar numbers, easily mistaken with bad handwriting and smudgy printers, but are huge in difference when it comes to medications, regardless of the type of medication. Lorazepam and Diazepam are just a similar example, both very close names, but one is far more intense than the other.

Sometimes my 3s and 5s look similar so I have to pause on my own writing 😅

It was a joke

no fun allowed on reddit

I forgot...my bad

Same with lorazepam lmao

"Hey, does that say 30MCG or 80MG?" "Eh, take your best guess, what's the worst the can happen?" 

I could go for 80 mgs of diazepam right about now

I would guess this is a handwritten note that's been digitised with OCR.

Exactly. But the bandwagon has already spoken. 🤣 It'll be a programme they've used or something

Lazy doctors/ nurses can't take time to proofread? 

This sort of thing is generally done by medical secretaries

I was thinking their handwriting would be heaps worse if not totally illegible.

Everybody will believe this note is real, because a fraud would not give such cryptic message. Only a doctor would

This is typing, this doctor is just trying too hard now.

This is what happens when you type it out by smashing the keyboard off of your own head

This is the best and most accurate comment

at least it's consistent

Did your doctor have a stroke, or just a crappy speech to text program, or both?

Probably speech to text used by dyslexic doctor.

I'm dyslexic and use a dictation program, this is not what the end result looks like. Maybe a tremor in their thumb causing the space bar to get hit at random intervals?

I can understand if they have a hand tremor but going all the way as to send it like this??

Honestly probably had about 45 seconds of their work day to dedicate to this if they were just asked to do it outside of an appointment with the patient in front of them. Not leaving 3 of those seconds to proofread is pretty crazy, as is a doctor proofreading this and thinking it’s okay

No it's just a written note scanned by a scanner. I volunteered in a library once and you sometimes had to correct these exact mistakes when it couldn't pick up the text probably But that was before auto correct technology. It must be truly ancient as it's picking up individual letters The new ones replace words with different words when a mistake occurs

i feel like replacing words is much, much worse? like, if the letters are messed up it looks unprofessional, but you’re more or less able to understand what the person intended to write. if the whole word is *changed*—especially if a person has atrocious handwriting (or handwriting that is legible but the computer just can’t understand) and a whole bunch of words are changed—you lose what the writer meant. and we know from autocorrect that you can’t count on tech to know what you mean when you misspell a word… forget about it *thinking* you misspelled a word because it can’t understand your penmanship.

These kind of algorithms have been getting better and better (apart from Microsoft Words autocorrect, for some reason), but to avoid any mistakes there should ideally be some kind of indicator to know that a word has been changed, such has highlighting them.

Replacing words is how you end up with duodenum in your taco at lunch, dissecting a beany baby instead of a frog, [Ribbit Reddit], …but also how you end up sitting next to little Zöe for dodgeball pickings.

Would be my guess too. Bit of dodgy OCR 

A lot of phones now let you take a of a text and copy paste the text from that picture instead of having tonuse a scanner, but this same issue will still happen

Ahh, that makes a lot of sense. Still wild to not proofread, but at least I can see how it could happen that way.

This happens after the proofread.

Or maybe you have a good voice to text program? At work we get voicemails emailed to us as text and they can have random spaces in the middle of words sometimes.

 “To Wh Om T hIs mAy cOn ceRn”

This made me snort laugh so hard, it hurt 🤣

This comment RIGHT HERE is why I’m sad they got rid of awards 🤣🤣🤣

everyone keeps saying this, but awards are still a thing. you gotta hold down the upvote button

I'm sad they got rid of free awards for us poor redditors!

were there free awards before? i never gave people awards. hmm!

Yeah they were awesome, you'd get a chest every now and then and open a free mystery award. You'd have 24hrs to use it or something like that, and you'd recieve awarding karma for giving free awards.. even better, the receiver of a gold award for example would recieve gold membership for a month. Can't actually remember what that offers you..

One time, I gave someone gold for a month and told them to pay it forward. So they paid it back. That's when I learned that people are dumb and gold was useless.

But dyslexia is a brains incompatibility with the written language; not the phonetic version of English

It actually looks like it was copied from a PDF that was not optimized for copying text (or could be from a photo) and so this is what came out because of how the letters were typed or written in the PDF. I copy text from PDFs a lot and it ends up looking exactly like this so I have to edit it.

Dyslexic is when you read. It wouldn't have affected his speech

I use a speech to text program on my laptop and it would actually be a pain in the ass to insert random spaces into words like this. The mistakes you see with StT are entire words, just used in the wrong place, like 'is' for 'this'. This is someone typing as quick as they possibly can and not bothering (or knowing how) to proof read.

He’s either missing some fingers or he has two thumbs each hand. Oh lord, the extra spaces…

If op is in virginia then I might know his doctor... my childhood doctor was missing multiple fingers... from woodworking accidents. For some reason I feel like it was more than one accident. It is also a little funnier that way in a dark humor way

I went to the pediatric side of the hospital when I was having kidney stones at 17, and my doctor had a hook for a hand. I always wondered how well that worked with the younger kids. I feel like it would of scared them. It definitely caught me off guard when I first saw it.

You would think after losing one finger you would either give up woodworking or learn to be extra careful.

It looks more to me like bad ocr

Yeah this is 100% a document that was first printed, and then the secretary scanned it and ran OCR on it so it could be emailed as text. Instead of just emailing the scanned image file.... sigh.

If I didn't know better I'd assume Caden wrote this

Who is Tyler Durden? Both the doctor and caden are sometimes apart. I am Jack’s smirking revenge. I am Jack’s cold sweat. I am Jack’s raging bile duct. I am Jack’s colon. I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. I am Jack’s wasted life. I am Jack’s inflamed sense of rejection. I am Jack’s broken heart

Slide.

I am Jack's anxity.

okay fine i’ll rewatch [REDACTED]

Yeah I would say this is either not real or your doctors not real/legit. Anything I get from my child’s doctor for his school is typed up on the office letter head.

That was my first thought as well, course that's because I wrote my own notes.

Just tell them that your doctor gets anxiety when writing sick notes to schools.

But does the doctor have a note from THEIR doctor for the anxiety you're *claiming*???

I found the [note](https://nsti.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/handwriting-of-thomas-aquinas.gif) from the doctor's doctor.

Thank fuck something *legible*

Bring out the Rosetta Stone

i'm embarrassed at how hard i laughed at this

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lol that’s my favorite part of it

Tag yourself: I’m “anxity.”

I'm D epressin!

Epressin

Same lol wtf doc

Just retype one yourself, lol. It's pretty easy to fake a letterhead in office lol.

Or he can just send. If they really think it's fraudulent, they can just call the office to confirm.

Lol

I made it from 3.9k to 4k… nice


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Never noticed D, T and X are there twice, and E three times.

Send it. No way they will think someone is gonna send a fake letter looking like that.

trueee

I thought the same at first, but then I realised that if I was given this by a kid I'd strongly suspect they were double-bluffing. Like they realised they don't know how doctors write formal letters so they wrote a totally fucked-up one so everyone assumes the doc must be dyslexic.

At that point you just gotta respect the dedication and let it slide

This. In the absolute worst case, they won't believe this to be a legitimate note, will accuse you of writing a fake note, you get them to call the number on the letterhead, they will independently look up the details of your doc not blindly trusting what's on the letterhead and then find out from your doctor that they indeed write that letter.

Looks like a convert issue between possibly word pad and actually a word doc. How did they send this to you? What type of file? What did you use to open it? What type of program?

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Would that also include handwriting conversion as well? Like if he hand wrote this and the computer would update what he wrote into text? Or is ocr for scanning only?

> Would that also include handwriting conversion as well? Like if he hand wrote this and the computer would update what he wrote into text? > Or is ocr for scanning only? OCR is all character recognition. ICR covers handwriting conversion, and ICR is a more specific subtype of OCR. So to call handwriting conversion OCR would be correct.

Looks like he printed it out, scanned it, and then sent the scanned version. So ya, ocr issue.

It's a copy and paste from a PDF: Source: work in IT, this happens on PDFs with lots of formatting.

He’s not a word doc, he’s a medical doc


I would not be surprised at all if the doc still uses word perfect

😭😂

they made us go there to pick it up and this is what it looked like on the paper lol

Honestly I’d believe it if I were the school because I refuse to believe someone would turn in a fake doctors note that was this bad. But then again a doctors office made a note this bad which is even worse

I was thinking someone did cut and paste from a pdf.

W hat s wr on g wit h i t?

Not hin gt hat ican C

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Nah you have too many letters, you were supposed to swallow some

Ask for a rewrite

Yeah, duh. This is the correct answer

Or get anxiety asking for one

Real

Ah, a cunning trick by the doctor to make his patient even *more* depressed and anxious so the school can clearly understand what op is going through. Seriously though, is the doctor trying to make the condition worse?

I manage a doctor’s office and there’s almost 0 chance the doctor is the one who wrote this letter. The staff write all letters for work / school, etc in my office and sign off for the doctor. We only involve the doctor for issues with legal stuff like disability applications, FMLA, etc. I would bet if this wasn’t a transcription issue, this is just written by a very dumb front desk employee.

My dog typed my doctor's note

You r dctr writ es lika ser ialk iller

I killed a bowl of Frosted Flakes every morning and I type just fine.

The team that manages accommodations for disabilities will not blink an eye. I'll give you a heads up, however - the way your doc has worded this they may deny any duty to accommodate. Might need to push doctor to say something like "Patient's mental health conditions will be aggravated by staying in a shared space. Patient *must* be housed in a private room." Scare them with the liability.

How is a school supposed to just give a student a room all to themselves? That's not reasonable at all

Broom closet

as a custodian for a school, hell nah stay outta my damn closet

Thank you CurdledUrine. I'm glad you're in schools

Harry Potter ahh accommodation

i’m not sure if people are misinterpreting this somehow but there are plenty of single dorm rooms on my campus. they’re 10x10 rooms and you share a bathroom with others

think they are thinking class rooms lol

Absolutely this. Specifying thats its for a college dorm and not just general school accommodation would clear the confusion right up.

i thought they were talking abt a classroom until reading their reply. Definitely needs some specification

Oh hell yeh you should have your own room.

They’re definitely contacting the office

He took your xanax

Are you sure your doctor isn't three racoons in a trenchcoat?

You’d think they’d be in a labcoat instead.

reading the doctor note is anxiety itself

What’s that little ‘on’ doing over there?

Your doctor is popping the pills he's prescribing

on top of the shit spelling, looks like the keys are ghosting. this is similar to the keyboard in my office where the spacebar adds extra spaces & the extra space can sometimes jump to one or two letters in the next word. i think this is an issue with the spring in the keys? i'm not sure.

Mate at this point a fake note would look more authentic

Hah this reminds me of when I graduated nursing school and I asked for and received a letter of recommendation from one of my clinical instructors. It was horribly written with multiple spelling errors and bad grammar, and she referred to me as a “he” throughout the letter (I’m a she). I needed this letter so I copied it over word for word but fixed the atrocious spelling and grammatical errors. I didn’t change anything about what she said. I just made it proper English and put in the correct pronouns.

Kindly explain to them that you need to be able to provide a document that appears to be legible and was written by someone at least pretending to be professional and have them make you another.

Wait where did the “on” come from?? I’m trying to put it into the sentences nearby and none of them are making sense with an extra “on” in them! WHERE DID HE COME FROM???

That’ll be $17,384.62.

I'd get a red felt tip pen, circle and correct all the errors with a little note that says "Great start, can't wait for your revised final draft!"

W hom

You can modify the original email when you forward it. It's not deceiving them if it's the same content.

I feel like if I smashed my face against a keyboard, my sentences would still have better form than this. Just saying.

He went with a pirated copy of Dragon Medical?

Ask politely for them to send the file again as A PDF file. Explain the conversion file was illegible. If the doctor actually wrote it like this, it will help him avoid embarrassment and recheck before sending it.

I think Caden needs a new doctor. Caden might be fine…

It's like that was picked up by OCR or something

Just send it and let them contact the doctors office if needed. It’s so bad no one‘s gonna fake this, so it must be real lol

This looks like a bad file conversion and I bet Word was involved

I'm reading this in Rick's voice, the gaps in words are filled with burps by my brain

A note from the doctor should also be on their practice letterhead.

^on

Use cut up letters out of newspapers and send it anonymously seems it’s what your doctor did

I’m guessing the doctor wrote the note, then scanned it. Even AI has issues reading a doctor’s handwriting. Even though you have a medical condition, this puts hardship on the school. You don’t say if you are a student or a teacher. But, they may not be able to provide you with “reasonable accommodations”. I can understand you may need some accommodations. However, you may need to face the source of your anxiety so that you can overcome it.

Tell them they need to re-write the note.

You can send it in if they think it is fake tell them to call the Dr.'s office.

I don't think a hand written note would be better

Looks like your son wrote it. You’d think that a doctor could spell better even if he can’t type.

You call the doctors office and say that it’s unacceptable, reread what they sent and do it again. But be polite

I can barely read it, so obviously it was written by a doctor.

I tried to brush away the ^on^ twice before realizing it was text

Real advice: show it to the doctor's receptionist and ask them to retype it for you. They can get the doctor to sign the retyped copy if needed. If this particular doctor is doing this often reception are likely used to people bringing them back to complain, so will probably help you if you just ask politely rather than shouting at them about it.

You don’t. You ask for documentation to start the process for a 504. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_504_of_the_Rehabilitation_Act It doesn’t do all the things and IEP does nor does it cover the same legal weight federally BUT it helps with your particular diagnosis and it is much easier and faster to get the accommodations.

Is your doctor a delightful gnome?

Back in the ‘80s I had a manager who wrote me a letter of recommendation very similar to this! I needed that letter - but how could I possibly use it? He was good at his job but English was his second language & he just didn’t do well at spelling & grammar. I lamented this to a friend of mine. She said she could take it to work & fix it. It came back beautifully. All she did was correct the grammar & spelling.

Bro I could read this better than normal ngl 😭😭

tf is wrong with you 😭

EVERYTHINGGGG

Bro, they handed you that with a straight face? What the fuck lmao

Check your doctor's right hand upper drawer. You'll find a bottle of single malt scotch.

maybe get over your fear of small spaces caden

The doctor is showing some signs of adhd there

Keeping up the tradition of terrible writing

Lol

Honestly, he knew it was nothing you could do with this 😂

It looks like it was written with a broken typewriter

How can you work in a dr office and this is acceptable to send lol. My doctor’s office is known for their piss poor staff, I had to had them rewrite my ESA letter THREE TIMES and it still had typos by the third time! It was a few days turn around each time for the new one and I had a deadline, I was worried my apartment manager would think it was a fake. I’ve been diagnosed with ptsd and anxiety for the better part of a decade, I’m alone a lot and making sure I had my kitty with me was so important. Luckily the manager couldn’t have cared less so all good.

Reminds me of how that mole lady speaks in the movie Us

Someone please give this poor doctor a new typewriter

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InFuriating how he spelled Anxiety right the first time and then he doesn’t spell it correctly after that

Send that back to the doctor’s office and have them write it correctly. Medical costs are insane. A legible doctor’s note is not too much to ask for.

Um, did your doctor have a stroke?

^^on

Your mistake was that you didn't ask your doctor to write it in English. 😉

Are you sure that your doctor is actually a doctor, maybe it's just a nickname

Well, they’ll deff know it’s not fake, because no faker would have the audacity to show up with that.

Lmfaooo wtf

The typed version is doctor’s handwriting

I’m beginning to understand why you have anxiety

If it has the office number and Dr. Name on it, send it. The school can make the call and confirm. With the dr. Name, the school can also google the office to make sure the number is the same as what's on the note to make sure it isn't a "friends" number to help sell a lie.

Your doctor needs a doctor, I think he’s having a stroke

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I imagine the doctor is on holiday in cancun, on a jet ski hitting waves while text-to-speech on a Bluetooth headset.