PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mohammad Al-Kassimi
TI  - Cultural differences: practising medicine in an Islamic country
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.3-1-52
DP  - 2003 Jan 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 52--53
VI  - 3
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/1/52.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/1/52.full
SO  - Clin Med2003 Jan 01; 3
AB  - Islam and Muslims have been in the headlines recently for one reason or another. But the practice of medicine in an Islamic conservative country such as Saudi Arabia has not been adequately reported. Many questions about cultural differences in the practice of medicine have been directed at me by non-Muslim colleagues. Below, I have tried to answer some of them after practising at a university hospital in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years.