Do Doctors Use Steganography?

Medical stenographers allow doctors and other healthcare professionals to receive the reliable and accurate medical documentation they need to properly evaluate a patient's condition and determine the ideal treatment.

Do doctors use shorthand?

However, if a prescription looks indecipherable to you, it's possible that your doctor is using shorthand that your pharmacist will immediately understand—like the abbreviation QD, from the Latin phrase for “one a day.”

Why do doctors write the way they do?

The short answer is that doctors write for many of the same reasons that non-physicians do: They feel compelled to write. They have something to say. They love words and language. They are excited by the process and gratified by the result.