The way they write, it makes you wonder, how the heck do pharmacists read that crap?
2007-03-25 08:25:23 · 29 answers · asked by Gnome 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Unfortunately, we can't always read the scrawl. Which means the poor patient has to wait until we can hear back from the doctor.
If I were a judge, and a physician was being sued, I'd make them write out their defense. Then I'd compare the penmanship to the prescriptions and charting they do.
2007-03-27 17:31:20 · answer #1 · answered by jloertscher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-25 08:29:01 · answer #2 · answered by kenmauiphoto 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm convinced there is a class in medical school on how to write illegibly. Pharmacists are used to the doctors' chicken-scratches, but sometimes they still have to call the doctor's office to ask who wrote the prescription. I know, I'm the one who gets the calls and has to translate the writing!
2007-03-25 08:29:52 · answer #3 · answered by Bad Kitty! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is actually an issue in pharmacy. More doctors are going to computerized prescribing programs, and that will help out in some ways, and add in new errors. Doctors have been asked to print and not use cursive. The current trend is to have doctors add a line at the end describing what the medicine is for.
2007-03-25 10:27:25 · answer #4 · answered by Lea 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The real question is, do the pharmacists have to be trained to read the scribble?
2007-03-25 08:28:25 · answer #5 · answered by Deconstitutionalization 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think doctors naturally have sloppy hand writing, and it may have something to do with a different portion of the brain being dominant.
I am currently in medical school, and I have had sloppy handwriting all of my life. My teachers would often say "Wow, with handwriting like that you could be a doctor".
Doctors who are left handed interestingly may have better handwriting, since the left hand is more connected with the right brain and responds to visual imagery, while the right hand is connected to the left brain and responds to audio and motor repetition.
Doctors may just be wired differently, which explains their ability to study chemstry and physiology, yet have such sloppy hand writting.
2007-03-25 08:33:25 · answer #6 · answered by ryukyu_jin7 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes....I thought of the same thing.
I think the first thing that doctors learn to do to become a doctor is to have bad handwriting and the first thing pharmasists have to learn is to read the bad hand writing.
LOL
2007-03-25 08:34:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
my mom thinks the same thing! she's a nurse, and whenever she gets an order from a doctor, she can never read a word it says, so she has to call the doctor. (and the doctor gets really annoyed 'cause she works at night)
2007-03-25 08:30:00 · answer #8 · answered by ♥♫ Never Too Late ♫♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL. . .I don't know. Maybe pharmacists are trained to read scribble?
2007-03-25 08:28:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes I think they go through special courses for their writing,I swear it must be some super duper secret code they share with pharmacists...I just know they are laughing about me in those scripts too
2007-03-25 08:33:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋