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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.
Physicians have explained why their writing on prescription notes is mostly ineligible for readers, clarifying that bad handwriting isn’t peculiar to doctors alone.Though they acknowledged that ...
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 ...
Doctors’ handwriting is, of course, one of the oldest jokes around. But for Hackmeyer, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center chief of staff, it was becoming a serious problem.
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 ...
While looking at your medical prescription, have you ever wondered why doctors have such bad handwriting? We are sure all of us have had this thought. A doctor’s writing is not just bad but can ...
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 ...
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.