The risks of writing informal prescriptions When clinicians write informal prescriptions, their supervising physicians may also suffer the consequences. As medical professionals, we often find ...
You walk out of a doctor's clinic clutching a white sheet of paper that looks like a secret code. The pharmacist squints, nods like a detective who's cracked the Da Vinci code, and hands you a bag ...
Background: The frequency of drug prescription errors is high. Excluding errors in decision making, the remaining are mainly due to order ambiguity, non standard nomenclature and writing illegibility.