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.