'Doctor's handwriting be like': Anand's Mahindra tweet goes viral

New Delhi: Industrialist Anand Mahindra recently shared a short video on Twitter showing how a doctor's handwriting changes over time, which went viral and received mixed reviews from Twitter users. 

The video is a 15-second clip that lists different subheads under the title "Doctor's handwriting be like", with Mahindra captioning it, "Hilarious. But true." The video shows the well-written script of a 10th standard student, and how it becomes indecipherable when they earn a post-graduate degree and become a specialist. The video ends with a straight line associated with a specialist doctor. 

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The video had received around 1.1 million views, thousands of likes, and numerous reactions in the comments section.  

Various Twitter users who identify as doctors wrote that handwriting is a result of work pressure. A comment in the Indian Express read, "Yea cos we have to write so many prescriptions with an OPD of 100 plus in 7 hrs … today we dictate and print in urban India .. with acute shortage of doctors in India this won't solve .. in the near future." 

Meanwhile, another user read, "Sorry sir, we do not find it funny. This transformation, every doctor fears, results from work pressures and responsibility at each stage with new gen pen-pushers adding to clinicians' woes by ushering in mountains of paperwork to justify their own salaries and existence." A user had commented, "Strangely Medicals shops can decipher their handwriting." 

Responding to the tweet, the former Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy wrote, "Great research. Will find out what handwriting decode experts say." Anand Mahindra is quite active on social media, with around 9.7 million dedicated followers. 

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