Thousands of people die every year because of doctors’ poor handwriting
Medication mistakes kill more than 7,000 people every year. This is largely because of doctors’ often-illegible handwriting on prescriptions according to a July 2006 report issued by the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine. In order to eliminate this problem, there is a system of internet-based prescriptions that allow pharmacists to avoid mistakes and have to read what doctors write.
