National Survey for Doctors Day (3/30) Reveals: Most MDs Do Write Clearly and Are Not Motivated by Greed

Not All MDs Pursue Porsches, 10am Tee Times and Big Bucks - the Surprising Truth about Doctors

NEW YORK, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Doctors write legibly, they do not have a "God complex" and they are not motivated by greed. Who knew?!

In fact, 9 out of 10 medical doctors worldwide have penmanship that is quite easy to read, according to a survey released just in time for National Doctors Day, March 30th, by Pilot Pen Corporation of America.

For nearly ten years, Sheila Kurtz, Chief Graphology Officer (CGO) for Pilot Pen, has examined handwriting samples from more than 120,000 medical doctors around the world -- both for textual content and for what the handwriting itself reveals about the writer's personality.

  The surprising conclusions:

   * Only 10% of the surveyed doctors were found to have a truly illegible
     scrawl. According to Ms. Kurtz, "those doctors who scrawl do not take
     mental control or focus sharply enough to probe beneath the surface of
     a problem."
   * Doctors are more subservient to authority than we ever knew. The
     "compliance trait" was found in almost 65% of all doctors' handwriting
     samples examined in the research -- and it cut across all boundaries of
     nationality or medical specialty. Those doctors demonstrated thought
     patterns indicating their willingness to yield to authority, accepting
     information with little or no effort to analyze or investigate it.
   * Not all MDs pursue Porsches, 10am tee times and the almighty dollar.
     Their handwriting actually indicates that spiritual and intellectual
     needs outweigh the average doctor's desire for material goods. The
     handwriting traits for greediness ("initial hooks" at the beginning of
     letters) are just not there.
   * Many MDs are more comfortable talking ... and not listening.  Many
     handwriting samples demonstrate this trait -- by the open o's and a's
     within words, says Ms. Kurtz.

Among other findings about physicians from the Pilot Pen/Graphology Consulting Group handwriting report are the characteristics of medical specialists:

   * Cardiologists -- fast thinkers, open-minded, positive high energy.
   * Neurologists -- forward thinkers, quick, interested, intuitive and
     "elegant."
   * Orthopedic surgeons -- Surprisingly, only 15% display handwriting signs
     that indicate manual dexterity.
   * Male OB/GYNs -- the most depressed, stressed and disheartened among all
     specialties. When asked why, many pointed to greedy, ungrateful
     families and aggressive malpractice lawyers.
   * Female OB/GYNs -- Optimistic, energetic.
   * Anesthesiologists -- Clear thinking, objective, not impulsive -- good
     traits for the operating room.

"Doctors tend not to recognize their personal traits because they are too preoccupied with evaluating and fixing those belonging to other people," Ms. Kurtz says. "Handwriting analysis is a means for physicians to get to know themselves better -- and a vast majority of them in our data base were amazed to see how accurately their handwriting describes them."

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