No more scribbles: Indian court tells doctors to fix their handwriting

Indian court orders doctors to stop scribbling and fix their handwriting

An Indian court has ruled that patients deserve prescriptions they can actually read, after a judge was stunned by a doctor’s indecipherable scrawl.

Indian court orders doctors to fix handwriting, prescriptions must be legible

The Punjab and Haryana High Court in India has directed doctors to fix their handwriting, making their prescriptions legible for ordinary readers.Just like all across the world, jokes about...

No more scribbles: Indian court tells doctors to fix their handwriting

A legible medical prescription can make a difference between life and death, the court says.

Indian Court Orders Doctors to Fix Their Handwriting -Write Clear Prescriptions

The High Court of Haryana in Punjab, India, has ruled that doctors must write prescriptions clearly and legibly when providing treatment to patients. The court stated that a readable prescription is part of every patient’s right to life and warned that illegible writing could lead to fatal consequences. Concerns over poor handwriting by doctors have long been raised in India and across the world, with patients often struggling to understand thei…