There are drugs that are used for completely different purposes with a single letter change. Therefore, it is very important that the prescription written by the doctor is legible. “The Faculty of Pharmacy was opened to read that article.” In fact, pharmacists can also suffer from this situation, which is made with jokes.
According to the pharmacists, for these prescriptions that pharmacists sometimes cannot read, they try to reach the doctors first, and if they cannot reach them, the photo of the prescription is sent to the WhatsApp groups of their colleagues. So, what is the reason for the incomprehensible doctor’s letter that lies behind all this trouble?
According to one estimate, note-taking habits from his student years play a role in this article.
Medical professionals should take notes of almost every piece of information during the course during their student years. Therefore, according to the most common guess, this writing style, which was developed in order to be able to write faster in students, settles as writing styles over time.
The long and shifted appearance of the letters we frequently encounter in prescriptions can be caused by keeping the pen loose. Based on this, it is estimated that doctors continued their note-taking habits in their student life.
They may be trying to finish their work quickly because they fill out dozens of prescriptions and documents a day.
Not to mention the prescription. It contains name, surname, date, protocol number, diagnosis and drug names, and doctors write almost 80-100 of these prescriptions a day. It doesn’t end there, the identification numbers and other information of the patients are recorded in the protocol book.
In addition, resting and health reports, consultation papers, examination request papers, pregnancy follow-up cards, they deal with dozens of writing and paperwork a day. Considering all these works, it seems that it should not be surprising that they write fast and complex.
The fact that what is written on the prescription is unfamiliar to us may also be improving our opinion.
The names of drugs that doctors prescribe are not words we are very familiar with. So, although they actually write clearly, the terms may appear “unreadable” because they are unfamiliar to us.
Of course, our generalization also has an effect.
The handwriting of people in many professions does not need to be seen by others, but what doctors write reaches patients, nurses and pharmacists. In other words, some people in the world have bad writing, some have good writing, and doctors have good writing.
But when we see a bad doctor’s letter, we generalize it directly to the professional group, and when we see a good doctor’s letter, we don’t care much. A banker’s handwriting may also be bad, but we don’t see him or generalize to his profession.
- Resources: Doc Unlock, Pain Recovery, Kidadl
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