I kindly appeal to doctors to stop scribbling out the prescriptions as it makes it totally unintelligible to patients.

Patients also must be aware of what they take and the recommended dosage. It will make it quite easy for the patients to monitor the dosage.

What a pity! It is a difficult task even far druggists and pharmacists to read the careless scribblings of probably all doctors.

No sooner, we hand over the prescription to pharmacists they strain every nerve to understand, but fail and question us about our disease in public. Then they deliver the drugs and advise the usage on assumption.

This has been my experience on many an occasion. So, I humbly reappeal to all doctors to write prescriptions in block letters.
N. A. Nawaz,
Colombo 15.