During a bail hearing last week involving charges of sexual assault, the Punjab and Haryana High Court faced an unexpected hurdleâ a doctor's handwriting. The judge was unable to read a single word of ...

At a time when most people use keyboards to write, does handwriting really matter? Yes, say Indian courts, if the writer is a doctor. Jokes around the notoriously bad handwriting of many doctors that ...

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If you have ever received a prescription from a Filipino doctor (I confess: includes myself) that felt like you were staring at the Dead Sea Scrolls —or perhaps a failed ECG tracing—you are not alone.

When we think of doctors writing, we tend to picture illegible prescriptions, not lines of poetry. And yet, increasingly, surgeons and neurologists are producing poems, novels, plays and creative ...