DOCTORS' WRITING
The legibility of doctors' handwriting was criticised at a recent meeting, of the West Riding,lnsurance Commit tee, when there was considered an analyst's 'report showing that in a mixture dispensed by a chemist .there was an excess percentage of a certain ingredient, says a British medical correspondent. The chemist drew attention to the prescription written by the doctor; and said that he had read the quantity-as the Koman numeral "V" instead of, as the'doctor apparently intended, the Arabic figure 2., On the prescription the >doctor used Roman and Arabic figures. A member of'thje committee asked if there, were "any means of getting doctors tcr write prescriptions legibly so that the ordinary man' could read them. In most cases the writing was simply a scrawl."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 14
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126DOCTORS' WRITING Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 14
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