Medical Prescriptions

To teach kids about hieroglyphs We can show them doctor's prescription slips For this illegible version Exactly tallies its description Medicos scrawl letters with awkward curves And to read you've to strain nerves While reading the prescribed drugs Often a dispenser sneers and shrugs The prescription of 'pheniramine' Often gets misread as 'amphetamine' If they write 'ethambutol' It reads: ''Thy death toll'' And when they pen 'dexamethasone' It appears like 'desist my son' Many die of fatal reactions when dispensers misread doctor's prescriptions Handwritten prescription has become A potentil health-hazard Which requires urgent and immediate safeguard