New Delhi: The executive committee of the Medical Council of India has decided to advise doctors to write prescriptions in capital letters only.
When other remarks are required in the prescription chart such as dietary advice or recommended clinical tests, the doctors are asked to write at least the drug names and dosages in legible capital letters.
MCI chairperson Dr Jayshreeben Mehta said that the letters regarding this would be sent to all medical colleges in the country as soon as the said order gets ready.
The executive committee was just passing the proposal because the committee unanimously felt that drug names and dosages are not clearly written in prescriptions which caused a lot of confusion among both chemists as well as patients. That is why the medical council of India wanted doctors to write prescriptions in capital letters only.

Thus the prescription of doctors which being parallel lines or illegible scrawls, may soon be a thing of the past.