Doctors' handwriting

HANDWRITING. A pharmacist in Negros Occidental who won a congressional seat in the last election has vowed to do something about the unreadable handwriting of many doctors when writing instruction on their prescription pads for their patients.

SHE KNOWS. She told a mediaman that she knows that many pharmacists attending to patients buying medicines in the drugstore have a hard time deciphering or reading the scrawly handwriting of many doctors. “This is risky,” she said, “as the sales clerk, even if she or he is a pharmacist, may not be able to read correctly what is prescribed.”