Onoto Dr’s Pen - plunger version?

[AJ50]

I was talking to a friend who says she has a modern Onoto Drs pen with a plunger filling system. I’ve looked online and can’t see this combination. Did modern Onoto make a Drs pen with a plunger or was that just wistful thinking?

[Beechwood]

17 hours ago, AJ50 said:

I was talking to a friend who says she has a modern Onoto Drs pen with a plunger filling system. I’ve looked online and can’t see this combination. Did modern Onoto make a Drs pen with a plunger or was that just wistful thinking?

 

Onoto make a doctors pen, available at Cult pens but the only one I have seen is cc, a plunger filler upgrade is available

[AJ50]

5 hours ago, Beechwood said:

 

Onoto make a doctors pen, available at Cult pens but the only one I have seen is cc, a plunger filler upgrade is available

Ah, that could explain it. Thank you 👍

[Karmachanic]

Plunger option +£250

https://onoto.com/product/the-doctors-pen

[North Yorkie]

Why do doctors need a special pen? Does it make their hand-writing more legible?

[Beechwood]

29 minutes ago, North Yorkie said:

Why do doctors need a special pen? Does it make their hand-writing more legible?

 

Originally it may have been down to ink capacity because they wrote notes and prescriptions all day but it might just because they were monied and wanted some form of differentiation such as Doctors Coupe, a conventional car but with an extra compartment for medical requisites.

 

I have an assistant who calls my handwriting 'doctors handwriting', basically anything cursive. it is disappointing how many young people in my office can only read print.

  

[Targa]

On 4/9/2025 at 4:21 AM, North Yorkie said:

Why do doctors need a special pen? Does it make their hand-writing more legible?

No, it just looks cool.  I have the BBP / Conway Stewart Dr's pen in sterling silver.  It's nice too.  

On the topic of handwriting ...  Mine used to be quite awful.  I am from the ancient generation when we (i.e. lofty professional types) were not expected to be able to type, and so had a secretary to do so.  I mistakenly thought that writing very quickly (and therefore not neatly) was somehow a virtue.  I was blessed with a couple of secretaries who firmly advised me that that was just plain rude, let alone counter-productive, since things had to be re-typed several times to correct errors born of illegibility.  So I went back to my old penmanship books from school (yup - we had those, when the dinosaurs didn't eat them).  I made myself write clearly.  And, even now that I do much more writing on a keyboard (myself!), I still write quite neatly.  

Some folks here might have noticed my rantings that proper spelling and grammar (and diction) are not snobbery, but rather common courtesy so folks from different parts of the world, or country, or state, or whatever, can understand each other.  Well, I apply that same standard to myself for handwriting.