Ever wondered why doctors have such bad and non-understandable hand-writing. Not everyone can figure out what their doc have written to them. We feel completely fool whenever we receive any prescription from the docs and then go to the medical shops and hand it over to that shop-keeper, what he tells us is the routine of our medicine. Else we don’t have any idea what’s going around from the doc to the pharmacist.

According to doctorsecrets.com, their bad writing is “a matter of survival”. A problem for doctors is the volume of paperwork that needs to be completed for each patient encounter. It is a legal requirement that everything that is done, found, or instructed has to be documented prior to a patient being discharged.
Doctors know perfectly well that theses paper trails end in filing cabinets, never to be seen again, and that paperwork interferes with what’s really important – seeing and treating patients. Doctors also realize that what they write is intended to be seen solely by themselves and their peers, and not the public. Their handwriting is mostly decipherable among themselves because they know what to look for, which proves that doctors’ handwriting is made and not born.
Perhaps that’s the reason why the Union Health Ministry decided to bring in a gazette notification asking doctors to write their prescriptions in capital letters!

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