The Doctor’s Refusal to Treat Patients between Sharia and Law: A comparative study

Abstract

This paper talks about a legitimate, legal and ethical issue, which is the physician's reluctance to treat the patient. The research consistS of an introduction, a preface, two chapters, and a conclusion. As for the preamble, it included a definition of medicine and a statement of its ruling between freedom and obligation and an explanation of its virtues. The first topic dealt with measuring the physician's abstinence on jurisprudential issues studied by jurists, including: preventing water and food, monopolizing the necessary needs, and so on. Then the topic studied the doctor's refusal between the duty of anyone and the duty to be sufficient. In the second topic: he spoke about the doctor's refusal to treat patients in positive law. It also dealt with the controls of the abstaining physician's responsibility, and the laws binding the physician to treatment. In the conclusion of the research, the most prominent results and recommendations were outlined.