Health professionals have long drawn attention to the way they write.
The claim that doctors have ugly handwriting is not recent. For many health professionals draw attention to the way most of them write.
Although it might seem like a minor thing, it really isn’t. According to a blog post by writer Alfred López, thousands of people a year die in the United States due to bad handwriting from doctors, since pharmacists do not understand what is written in the prescriptions.
The website Health mentions in an article that a doctor paid compensation of $ 225,000 to the family of a patient who died due to a myocardial infarction, because the pharmacist interpreted Plendil (Felodipine), instead of Isordil (Isosorbide Dinitrate), which had been indicated. This error would have been related to the death of the person.
Despite this, what many do not understand is why many doctors have little understandable handwriting. In this regard there are several hypotheses in this regard.
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One of them dates back to the 15th century, when the Royal Tribunal of the Protomedicato was created in Spain, a group of experts in charge of monitoring the professions related to health. With the arrival of the Spanish in America, this technical body settled in the colonies of Spanish rule and as a rule, They demanded that the recipes be written in Latin, as the most cultured language, according to an explanation published in a book titled Gold and swords. Historical curiosities of Argentina when it was Spanish, by the writer Daniel Balmaceda.
The author points out in the text that with the increase in population and diseases, many patients began to complain of not understanding the prescriptions, because they did not understand Latin, a language that most of the population did not know.
Thus, at the beginning of the 19th century, it was decreed that doctors write prescriptions in Spanish, which pleased health professionals, who felt that this measure reduced the prestige of their work.
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Finally this order was complied with, but in retaliation they began to use a hard-to-read italic typeface. There is no certainty that the story is true, but what is known is that bad handwriting in doctors has become common.
However, there are those who affirm that the letter of the doctors is only the reflection that they are people who must make quick decisions, from the stress to which they are subjected or the pace of life that some lead, according to a website article NTR.
There are also those who believe that in reality the ugly handwriting of doctors is like that because in college they had to take many notes at great speed, but there are those who question this explanation, because students from many other careers went through something similar and their handwriting has not achieved that fame.
Tell me how you write and I’ll tell you who you are. What do your lyrics say about your personality?
To avoid inconvenience for the letter, many doctors nowadays prefer to write their prescriptions on the computer and print them, allowing patients and pharmacists to easily understand them. (E)
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