People often joke about doctors' illegible handwriting — but it's no laughing matter for the Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety, which has launched a "do not use" list of symbols and ...

DOCTORS have been banned from using abbreviations for ‘left’ and ‘right’ after a patient had the wrong area of his back operated on – twice. Bosses at Oxford University Hospitals (OUH ...

GPs do not understand medical abbreviations used by hospital doctors: Medical Journal of Australia study Julia Medew Updated August 3, 2015 — 12.43amfirst published August 2, 2015 — 12.15am ...