Medical prescriptions that are nothing but scribbles and scrawls are very common. Bad handwriting of doctors is a problem ...

This is not the first time an Indian court has called out sloppy handwriting of doctors. Past instances include the high ...

Judge criticises doctor’s illegible handwriting and suggests medical schools should teach penmanship - Judge says unreadable prescriptions can endanger lives ...

A High Court ruled that doctors must start writing legible prescriptions, warning that messy handwriting endangers several ...

Hyderabad: Retelling a personal ordeal while going through his doctor’s prescriptions, a retired government employee recalled a remark once made by his schoolteacher: “You scribble like a doctor!” ...

The directive, issued by Justice Jasgurpreet Singh Puri, came in an unrelated case involving allegations of sexual exploitation, cheating, and forgery ...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered doctors to write clear prescriptions or go digital, stressing patients’ right ...

For many years, a large number of doctors have written their medication prescriptions so quickly that it can be difficult for patients to understand what they have written. This has been a problem ...

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 ...

An Indian court recommended that medical schools include handwriting lessons in their curricula to ensure doctors issued clear and readable prescriptions. “The right to know the medical status of a ...