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Decoding doctor's handwriting: The urgent need for legible prescriptions in healthcareIllegible doctor handwriting on prescriptions poses a major risk in patient care, often resulting in medication errors with fatal consequen...- 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...
- 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...
- India should remove provisions of jail term for labelling offences: EAC-PM working paperThe paper also suggested that the government may consider putting in place a system to assimilate all the statutory/regulatory mandates fro...
- Doctors to be penalised for not prescribing generic drugs, says new NMC regulationAll doctors must prescribe generic drugs, failing which they will be penalised and even their license to practice may also be suspended for...
- Central govt employees: Guidelines issued for treatment and billing by CGHS empanelled hospitalsThe Central Government Health Scheme provides comprehensive health care facilities for central government employees and pensioners and thei...
- 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.
- Life saviors force-feed pills bitter on pocket in exchange for exotic vacations, chic carsTo keep a gauge if a doctor is prescribing drugs manufactured by particular pharmaceutical companies, medical representatives collect weekl...
- 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...
- Over 1000% difference in medical test prices across cities: Will govt standardise rates?An analysis by the economic survey reveals that there are not only wide differences in average prices of diagnostic tests but also the pric...
- Max Bupa, Hospital Lobby Group spar over generic drug prescriptionMax has also warned hospitals that it has the right to retrospectively audit those claims where there are no justifications given for presc...
- Pharma companies discuss order on generic drugsThe issue of generic drug prescription returned to the spotlight after PM Modi said that the govt would bring in a law to force doctors to ...
- 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 tells doctors to get it writePM prescribes greater legibility from medicos penning prescriptions.
- 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 ...
- Charak Pharmaceuticals wins case against Glenmark over drug nameCharak Pharma has won a six-year-old case involving its product Evanova, with court directing Glenmark to rename its drug Econova within fo...
- 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.
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