This document discusses medical ethics and the importance of trust between doctors and patients. It highlights some issues in the modern healthcare system like commercial targets prioritized over patient care, unnecessary treatments for financial gain, and bribery through gifts and commissions from pharmaceutical companies. The document urges doctors to make patients their top priority, provide compassionate care at low cost, and avoid anything that could undermine trust in the medical profession like exploiting patients for profit. It reminds that one day doctors will be accountable to God for how they conducted themselves.

1. Deen & Doctors
Speaking the unspeakable

2. Medical Ethics???
1. Medical ethics is or should be an oxymoronic term.
Medical care without ethics should be an
impossibility.
2. Like Judicial Integrity or Maternal Kindness
3. The fact that we have to talk about this shows the
extent of sickness in our society
We are a very sick society

3. It is not a sign of health to
be profoundly adjusted to
a sick society.
~ J. Krishnamurthy

4. HIPPOCRATIC OATH, MODERN VERSION
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as
is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and
therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may
outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a
patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most
especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be
within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my
own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

5. • I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose
illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related
problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human
beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection
thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long
experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
Written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used
in many medical schools today.

6. Once broken – it can never be put back
Trust is
like glass

7. Relationships of Trust
1. Parent – child
2. Teacher – student
3. Husband – wife
4. Employer – employee
5. Lawyer – client
6. Imam – muqtadi/musalli
Doctor - Patient

8. Crime
Violation of trust is the worst crime
because the one affected had no
defense against it.

9. The Golden Rule
“None of you can (truly) believe if you do
not want for your brother what you want
for yourself.” [Bukhari]
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

10. Ask Yourself
1. If you were the patient instead of the doctor,
would you still approve of the treatment you
prescribed for your patient?
2. Would you like another doctor to do to you what
you did to your patient?
Because a day will come when Allah‫ﷻ‬ will put
you through the same hoops

11. Patient
Hospital Pharma
Company
Health Care
Professional
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Center
The Patient is
the only one
who pays

12. Medical Malpractice
1. Hospitals with commercial targets
2. Pharma companies giving commissions/incentives
3. Diagnostic centers giving kickbacks
4. Needless hospitalization/treatment/investigations
The doctor is the key decision maker
The patient pays the price

13. Questions to Doctors who do this
1. How are you not insulted to be given a commercial
target by the hospital?
2. How are you not insulted when your performance is
judged on the money you make for the hospital?
3. How do you take gifts, holidays, whatnot from
pharma companies without feeling insulted?
One day you will be asked these questions by Allah‫ﷻ‬

14. The Law
Bribery is illegal

15. The Law
1. All commissions/incentives are bribes
2. All gifts to public servants are bribes
3. All bribes are illegal and Haraam
The curse of Allah‫ﷻ‬ is on all those give or take bribes

16. Bribery is cursed
Abdullah bin `Amr narrated that Rasoolullah said:
“The curse of Allah‫ﷻ‬ is upon the one who
offers a bribe and the one who takes it.”
(Ahmad, Ibn Majah)

17. Stop evil
Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri narrated that Rasoolullah said:
“Whosoever amongst you sees an evil, let him
change it with his hands; and if he is not able, then
with his tongue; and if he is not able, then let him
hate it in his heart, and that is the weakest of faith.”

18. Gifts to officials are bribes
Abu Humaid As-sa’idi reported that
Rasoolullah said:
“Gifts offered to public servants are ill-
gotten gains (ghulul).”

19. Beyond salary is Haraam
Buraidah ibn Al-Husaib narrated that Rasoolullah said:
“When we appoint someone to a (public) post and provide
him with an allowance, anything he takes beyond that is an
ill-gotten gain.”
(Abu Dawud)

20. Will go to Jahannam
Khaulah bint `Amir (RA) reported that Rasoolulah said,
“Some men abuse Allah ‫‘ﷻ‬s property (public funds).
They will go to Hell on the Day of Resurrection.”
(Bukhari)

21. Ask Yourself
1. How would you like to be in the care of a doctor for
whom you were the first and most important priority?
2. How would you like to be in the care of a doctor who
was interested only in your welfare, ensuring that you
received the best care, in the most compassionate way
at the lowest possible cost?
That is medical ethics

22. Ask Yourself
1. How you would like to be in the dua of all
those you help through their pain and
sickness?
2. How would you like to cursed by all those you
victimized, deceived, exploited and abused?
Choose wisely – for the choice is yours

23. The story
Madras Medical College, 1952

24. ‫ب‬ ْ‫م‬َ‫ل‬ْ‫ع‬َ‫ي‬ َْ‫َل‬َ‫أ‬ََ‫لّل‬ ََّ َ‫َأ‬َ‫ى‬َ‫ي‬
Alaq 96: 14
Doesn’t he know that Allah is watching?

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