Doctor prescriptions should be generic: Health Minister informs parliament
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Doctors should write the generic names of drugs in legible handwriting, preferably in capital letters, in the prescriptions, the Union Minister of State for Health Smt Anupriya Patel recently stated in the Rajya Sabha.
As per Smt Patel, the doctors' responsibility in this regard has been specified in Clause 1.5 of the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette, and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, to ensure that there is a rational prescription and use of drugs.
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