Doctors’ handwriting on prescriptions is notoriously bad. Sometimes they fill out the patient’s name and the drug name with what looks like a scribble. For something as important as a prescription, you would think legibility would be important.
The really weird thing is that the pharmacies can actually read the squiggles. This leads me to wonder: maybe it’s actually secret code that only the doctor and pharmacist understand. That way an ordinary person couldn’t walk into a drugstore with a fake prescription, because he wouldn’t know the secret codes.
I know this sounds off-the-wall, but what other explanation is there as to how the pharmacy can read the prescriptions?