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 ...

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.

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 ...

Based on: Prescription Writing, designed for the Use of Medical Students who have never studied Latin. By Frederick Henry Gerrish, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical ...