While looking at your medical prescription, have you ever wondered why doctors have such bad handwriting?
How weird is it that doctors go through so many years of study, but most of them still have such bad handwriting?
And it is not something to be proud of!
Let’s find out the reasons.
How does it happen?
1. Writing pressure
Doctors have to write much more than any other job all their life.
They have just not to write medicine names instead they write every small detail as evidence of history. So if they can write one word in 2 milliseconds then why would they take 2 seconds!
2. Hectic day
Doctors have to attend to almost 50 patients in an hour and have to remember every detail. They have to listen to 50 types of problems, note down everything, and prescribe the right medicine. So, long days with tons of writing leads to a very tired hand.
3. Doctors are in a rush
Doctors don’t attend to one patient for one hour. If they do so they have ample time for their handwriting
Instead, they have a rush. They rush from one patient to another including emergency cases. Doing so they prefer to write all information rather than perfecting their handwriting.
Is this something to improve?
Due to the workload on doctors resulting in their bad handwriting, many medical stores misspell it and give the patient different medicine
Due to this, many patients die even after the right treatment.
You will be shocked to know that as per the data from 2006, there are 7000 deaths per year due to wrong prescriptions.
Thus, now doctors are moving towards electronic records to cut down on errors. At some places, it’s illegal if you give out your patients a written prescription.
So, be careful and ask your doctor for a printed prescription.
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