At 07:57 PM Wednesday 2/12/03 +0000, you wrote:
yup - as someone who always had atrocious handwriting - I now can't use a pen and paper for much more than writing down a phone number. I seriously find it difficult to think / write these days without a keyboard. I am not a touch typist but I regard a keyboard as natural and don't see how anyone can write with a pen and paper.On Wednesday 12 February 2003 16:39, Tripp, Bryan wrote: > This is interesting. The author claims that "handwriting is > such an automatic activity", which seems right to me in this > context, in that handwriting interferes very little with > listening. Why? I agree, what he says about that is pure bullshit. What it means is that things he does he regards as natural, and other things he doesn't want to do.
I am old enough the remember the days of walking into health services, say a Psychiatric Hospital and being shown a patient file about 4 inches thick full of writing over several years, with hardly one bit of useful information able to be extracted - even if the writing could be read. The resistance then by some staff was to structuring notes in anyway other than a long rambling novella badly written. " we'll lose the story" -"you are forcing us / patients into boxes"
My GP now has his monitor facing me, we look at my record and warnings etc together, he clicks his mouse and types a bit, i suggest things he enters them i can read it. This a huge improvement on his old small cards on which he scribbled some badly written cryptic notes - which even he has trouble reading if he has to go back to.
aah natural - nature is after all a human construct too.
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