At present, many prescriptions in top three hospitals are printed, and doctors only need to sign by hand, so the doctor's handwriting is quite sloppy and understandable.

2. Most medical prescriptions are English abbreviations of drug names.

Many drug names in doctors' prescriptions are abbreviated in English. So doctors usually write abbreviations directly, because if you write Chinese characters, a few letters may need to be translated into more than a dozen words, so a layman without professional training may not be able to understand them even if they are printed neatly.

3, pharmacists can understand.

Neither the medical record nor the prescription is for the patient, so the doctor scribbled it and didn't mean to make the patient unclear. Other doctors or pharmacists can basically understand what doctors write. This is a shorthand of some English letters or numbers written by doctors to save time, which may not be understood by ordinary people.

4. Busy

Doctors need to see a large number of patients every day, and the time is tight, so it is difficult to write neatly one by one. The outpatient service time is usually half a day. If you write slowly, you may spend more time, and the patients behind you may not see the doctor. Moreover, prescription drugs prescribed by many hospitals are not available in pharmacies outside, and doctors are not afraid of patients going out to get drugs.

In fact, doctors' scribbling is not unique to us, but also exists in other countries. Some studies have found that the number of deaths due to medical errors in the United States exceeds the number of deaths due to highway traffic. These medical errors are mainly caused by prescription errors, and doctors' scribbling is an important reason for prescription errors.