If the physician prescribes a drug orally...

If the physician prescribes a drug orally, he should make sure that the patient understands the name correctly, in case he would ask for the wrong drug and get worse instead of better. He should be decent towards women and should not divulge the secrets of his patients. III. His obligation towards the community: The physician should speak no evil of reputable men of the community or be critical of any one's religious belief. IV.

His obligations towards his colleagues: The physician should speak well of his acquaintances and colleagues. He should not honor himself by shaming others. If another physician has been called to treat his patient, the family doctor should not criticize his colleague even if the diagnosis and the recommendations of the latter differ from his own. However, be has the obligation to explain what each point of view may lead to since his duty is to counsel the patient as best as he can.

He must warn him that combining different types of therapy may be dangerous because the actions of different drugs may be incompatible and injurious. V. His obligations towards his assistants: If his subordinate does wrong, the physician should not rebuke him in front of others, but privately and cordially. Islamic Physicians Medicine in Islam passed through three stages: I. The first stage is the stage of translation of foreign sources into Arabic.

It extended mainly during the seventh and eighth centuries. II. The second stage is the stage of excellence and genuine contribution in which the Islamic physicians were the leaders and the source of new chapters to medicine. This stage extended during the ninth through the thirteenth centuries. III. The third stage is the stage of decline where medicine, as well as other branches of science, became stagnant and deteriorated. The stage started mainly after the thirteenth century.

During the first stage, Syrian and Persian scholars did a marvelous job by translating honestly the ancient literature from Greek and Syriac in Arabic. Thcy translated different branches of science including philosophy astrology, and medicine.

The works of Hippocratcs (460-370 BC), Aristototle (384-322 BC), and Galen (131-210 A.D.) were among those translated From Arabic, the classic Greek literature was translated into Latin, then into Greek because most of the original scripts were lost and the only source was the Arabic translation.