Bangladesh court orders doctors to write legibly
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Dhaka: Doctors the world over are renowned for their bad handwriting, but now a Bangladesh court is seeking to ban the sloppy scrawl after prescriptions became so illegible that patients were taking the wrong medicines.
Doctors will now have to either type their prescriptions or write them in block capitals, deputy attorney general Mokhlesur Rahman told AFP after the court issued its judgement.
"The court has ordered the health secretary to circulate the ruling among the country's doctors. He was also asked to report on improvement of the situation within six weeks," he said.
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