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Bad handwriting not just confusing but life-threatening: CMC Vellore doctor warns, 5 dangers of messy prescriptionsIllegible prescriptions pose serious risks to patient safety, according to Dr. Sudhir Kumar, a senior neurologist trained at CMC Vellore an...
Gen X patient feels ‘too old’ after doctor’s receptionist calls his writing a ‘different kind of English’. But what did he write?A Gen X Redditor’s visit to the doctor revealed that cursive handwriting is now unreadable to younger staff, sparking the realization that ...
Peeved at bad handwriting, Odisha High Court orders doctors to write in capital lettersThe Orissa High Court, vexed by doctors' illegible handwriting, issued a directive on January 4, mandating them to write postmortem reports...
Trouble reading prescriptions? Google announces tool that can easily decipher your doctor's bad handwritingGoogle is working on a model that will smoothly read your doctor's badly hand-written prescriptions.
Kerala doctor's neat handwriting makes him a hit on social mediaThe prescription was written by Dr Nitin Narayanan, who works as a pediatrician at a Community Health Centre (CHC) in Kerala's Palakkad dis...
Anand Mahindra's tweet on handwriting of doctors is an instant hitMahindra's tweet is a 15-second video which shows how the handwriting of a doctor progressively deteriorates over the years.
Digital health startup Navia Life Care raises $1 million in fundingThe investment was led by Anicut Angel Fund, the equity arm of Anicut Capital, with participation from 9Unicorns and angel investors.
How this startup is using pen and paper to transform India’s healthcare industryDoxper, a healthtech startup, is helping doctors to digitise their case sheets using digital pen and encoded papers.
Saving patients: Handwriting classes for medical students in MPAn illegible prescription can lead to confusion and patients may end up with wrong medicines.
HC fines 3 UP doctors Rs 5,000 each for poor handwritingA Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has imposed Rs 5,000 penalty each on three doctors in separate cases for their illegible handwritin...
Doxper gets $750,000 in Seed RoundOther investors who participated in the round include Capier Investments and venture capital firm Globevestor.
Doctors to prescribe generic drugs only or face action, says MCIThe MCI has also asked the medical practitioners to ensure that there is rational prescription and use of drugs, failing which action will ...
PM Narendra Modi hints at rules for doctors to prescribe generic drugs“We will bring in a legal framework by which if a doctor writes a prescription, he has to write in it that it will be enough for patients t...
Soon, doctors to write prescriptions in capital lettersFear of misinterpretation due to doctor's illegible handwriting may soon be a thing of the past as government is set to make it a norm for ...
Medical Council of India wants doctors to write in capital lettersThe Medical Council of India has suggested that, henceforth, doctors should write their prescriptions in capital letters.
- No evidence to show A Raja's aide Sadiq Batcha may have been murdered: CBI sources
The CBI has, for cross-checking, roped in a team of doctors from AIIMS to examine the viscera and post mortem details of Batcha.
2G scam: Handwriting expert may be hired to verify A Raja's associate Sadiq Batcha's noteCBI is likely to enlist the services of a handwriting expert to verify the authenticity of the suicide note purportedly written by Sadiq Ba...