Doctors' handwriting has never been renowned for its elegance, but an Indian medical group is so concerned about sloppy scrawls that it has started an awareness drive to prevent fatal errors.

GADAG: A doctor from Karnataka has been revolutionising the way prescriptions are written by promoting clear and legible ...

Poor doctor handwriting is less of an issue today. Now, many doctors are moving toward electronic medical records to cut down on lost-in-translation errors, even for prescriptions.

”Doctors` handwriting has been the subject of jokes for some time, but we never really had a quantitative measure,” said Dr. John F. Beary, who conducted a survey to determine just how ...

Indian healthcare grapples with illegible prescriptions amidst digital drive: Nandita Vijayasimha, Bengaluru Thursday, July 3, 2025, 08:00 Hrs [IST] Despite the introduction of El ...

Doctors' handwriting can potentially lead to deadly consequences for patients, Time reported, citing a 2006 study from the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine.

Kuang Chen, CEO of Captricity, has heard all the jokes about doctors' handwriting. When I sat down with him at the company's Berkeley headquarters to discuss his company's newest launch, a HIPAA ...

Explaining why doctors’ writing could be illegible, a general practitioner in Lagos, Dr Cindy Madu, said most physicians’ handwriting has been influenced by the need to write fast.

Doctors with bad handwriting may not be perfectly educated, leading to confusion and potential medical errors in prescriptions. A running joke is that a student with sloppy handwriting will ...

A large number of doctors write medicine prescriptions in haste, ... Google can now read your doctor’s bad handwriting. Manish Singh. 11:17 PM PST · December 18, 2022.