Sloppy Handwriting Responsible For 7,000 Deaths Per Year in medical

"Doctors' Sloppy Handwriting Responsible For 7,000 Deaths Per Year"

• by Melissa Gall
• on 10/10/2013 
• in Accountable Care
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Physicians have infamously bad handwriting.  Tragically, The Institute of Medicine reports that doctors’ sloppy handwriting is responsible for 7,000 deaths each year.

But, modern technology aims to fix that problem and provide an electronic device to write prescriptions. “We’ve been using e-prescription for about two years,” said Shilpa Patel, a Clinical Pharmacist for Sierra Vista.  While it easier for staff when everything is recorded electronically, it actually benefits the patient.  The program cuts down on medication errors.

Does this lessen the doctor and patient relationship?  Is it therapeutic to see your prescribed treatment on paper in your hands or are you equally as content when your prescription is awaiting you at your pharmacy of choice."

Well did you know there should have been an Israeli connection. In 2006 I produced the first ever messy handwriting correction video " Anyone Can Improve Their Own Handwriting." I put much of the video on YouTube and it had over 60,000 hits. Now the video can be purchased at http://jasonalster.com/Handwriting_correction.php

or downloaded from Amazon.com as a streaming video. So if you are a physician and have poor handwriting-- get the video. 

There is even a legal firm defending people damaged by medical mistake due to poor handwriting. Well , guess what. I wrote them about my video. 

Ogg Murphy & Perkosky