Medico Legal Aspects of Prescription Writing- A Cross Sectional Study

Prescription is one of the important Medico legal documents, the art of prescription writing has an ancient inheritance, commonly the prescription considered as a written order by the physician to the pharmacist to prepare and dispense the drugs. The term prescription means an order to take certain medications. Prescriptions have legal implications, prescriber is responsible for clinical care of the patient.

Doctors are facing charges of medical negligence due to wrong prescriptions and illegible prescriptions, the number of cases filed in the courts are increasing day by day since from the inception of Consumer protection act in medical practise.

A cross sectional study was done with an objective to appraise the importance and various medico legal aspects in prescription writing. The study was conducted at Ranga reddy Dist area in duration of one year, prescriptions were collected randomly from the patients and analysed for errors and deficiencies, in my study I observed too many lacunas in the prescriptions which can lead to medico legal problems.