Personal Narrative: Understanding Doctor's Writing

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My second week back at the hospital was quite challenging, as I found difficulty in understanding the doctor’s writing in the patient chart. My patient was a 38-year-old, who was diagnosis with diabetes and hypertension about twenty years ago.
When I was reading the patient chart and could not of understand the doctors writing, I felt sad and said to myself “if I can’t understand the writing now how would I understand it in the future”. I was able to recognize a few words, but that didn’t help me in understanding the physician diagnosis and order for my patient.
Due to me not understanding the doctor writing, a lot could of went wrong if I didn’t ask for help to understand the writing. If it was a circumstance where I was afraid to ask for

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