Doctors with bad handwriting may not be perfectly educated, leading to confusion and potential medical errors in prescriptions.

In 2006, the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine estimated that doctors’ sloppy handwriting was killing more than 7000 people per year, and preventable medication errors were ...

A doctor's chicken-scratch penmanship is more than an enduring stereotype. It can be downright dangerous. Medication errors -- including many that are made because of illegible prescriptions ...

Those tiny nuances in handwriting do make a difference. A 2017 study found that just 82% of nurses and only 75% of pharmacists could read doctors’ instructions from the sample group.

Physicians have explained why their writing on prescription notes is mostly ineligible for readers, clarifying that bad handwriting isn’t peculiar to doctors alone.Though they acknowledged that ...

Why are doctors known for bad handwriting? ... I’ve found that one can still hand-write a prescription in a pinch, but legally, they are all supposed to be transmitted electronically.

Writing a prescription or drawing up a hospital chart was long a problem for Dr. Donald Mirate. “Nobody, including myself, could read what I wrote,” said the ophthalmologist from Valdos… ...

Doctors' handwriting has never been renowned for its elegance, but an Indian medical group is so concerned about sloppy scrawls that it has started an awareness drive to prevent fatal errors.