Doctors Fail Handwriting Test
Haydarabad: A retired government employee, who re -described a personal ordeal while passing through his doctor’s prescriptions, once remembered a statement made by the teacher: “Don’t scribble like a doctor!” Since then, it has brought to a point to develop handwriting. But now, he often visits the doctors and understands what his teacher means.
Earlier this year, Punjab and Haryana’s high courts and Odisha directed their doctors to prescribe and diagnosis in capital letters. In a recent decision, the Punjab and Harena Supreme Court even said that it has a fundamental right to recipe in illegal handwritten Article 21 (the right to life).
However, these directives had little effects on the ground. Patients in both urban and rural areas continue to face the same problem – doctors, sometimes even deliberately, even in the unrelavable handwriting. In some cases, pharmacists just outside the clinics are struggling to read them.
“The days when the authority of doctors were not questioned. He said.
Osmania General Hospital, “According to Nabh norms, the documents are legible and the name of the doctor should be written in capital letters under the signature, so who wrote the notes. In our hospital, most senior doctor follows this application, but you should insist with young doctors, Osman Osmania General Hospital said. Nabh is the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Health providers.
“According to the NMC (National Medical Commission) instructions, each doctor should only write the generic names of the prescribed drugs in capital letters and legally handwriting,” he said.
The Council collected many badly written prescriptions from unqualified practitioners. “Guides also help to identify quacks, because most of the drug names can not even syllab. Patients uselessly uselessly use handwriting. Usually only rural or government doctors are assumed to do so, but in fact, approximately 80 percent of doctors are assumed to write badly.
If they think that doctors did not write or diagnose or explain them in a clear, understandable way, they pointed out that patients could approach the state medical councils with complaints. Punjab and Haryana High Court proposed to adopt printed prescription systems. However, all hospitals do not have infrastructure, such as computers and typewriters to apply it.
When asked whether recipes can be written in local languages such as Telugu, Dr Rajeev explained that the diagnoses can be written and explained in the patient’s language, and the names of drugs should still be written in English.
With the increasing role of artificial intelligence, handwriting prescriptions may soon be old. AIG Hospitals already uses Prizma, an AI software that monitors doctor-patient speeches and creates prescriptions and reports. Doctors are currently testing the software, which is reported to have more than 90 percent accuracy.
Many corporate hospitals have started to suppress their prescriptions. It was not necessary to suppress the articles. However, many of them continue to write the brand name of drugs.
