What happened in Saudi Arabia from a wide prosperity, progress and civilization surge reflected on how medicine evolved in this part of the world . It is very evolved ,that we have so much to do to the patient, and we are very much dependant on the new technology, that available all the times even after the business hours, you can ask CT SCAN, echocardiogram .ultrasounds, and thrombolytic s at any time all the time and it all for free .


The health system in Saudi Arabia still heavily dependent on funding from the public treasury of the State by up to almost 80%. We do not have an insurance health system. Everyone treated the same and for free .

Sometimes I FEEL we are losing our clinical touch as we let those radiological images show us directly what is going wrong with the patient.

In another times it becomes very silly when you find yourself running around following lots of investigations . …all for only one patient. Many are unnecessary tests ,what a waist for a precious resources....


If the ELECTRONIC OR computer system went down for some reason but mostly due to overload ,things go crazy rounds get delayed …you can’t view x-rays, or patients labs, and the lab phones get busy as everyone trying to call them for their patients tests results.

This health system gets abused or over used . The doctor keep on going wild in ordering investigations. Patient number is increasing ,and it takes them forever to see a doctor DUE to the huge number of patients ,JUST TAKE A LOOK AT ER waiting area , and you know . This is resulted in another problem with the doctors.. there are not enough of them , not because it hard to get to medical school or because there are few who wants to be doctors …not at all . It is because we have huge numbers of foreigners in coming to work here and most of them middle agem not to mention Hajj season which attract more that 4 million pilgrims mostly elderly from worldwide. SO BASICALLY WE are very accustomed to DEALL with variety of illness from different part of the world…but there are just few of us .

So TO make more doctors ,they brought more from outside. Those doctors for most of the time are not THAT well trained to work on this part of the wold. Some of them only Aim to collect the largest amount of money as possible , then go back home!!! Some of them consider their practice here as just a stop station in their way to the western country as they learn about modern medicine here and get a very qualifying experience .

Since one month I'm working with this American Pakistani senior registrar who just finished her American board for internal medicine last year, she came here planning to get the experience tht qualify her to be consaltant . My problem with here she cant really make a decision, she is always very puzzleed by any case she face .The other day she called me asking me what antibiotic to give!!!!! . in another incidencant she called me saying she wants to do a pleural tap but she never done it ....on the bright side she have the desency to call and ask ....but I cant leave here alone handelling the patients other wise bad things can occure. ...she is driving me crazyI REALLY THINK THOSE docs have BEEN NOT READING or updating them self for long time!!!.


Last April THE ministry of health initiated a new insurance system named Cooperative health insurance system FOR NON Saudis ,in few hospitals to study its effectiveness. I seems to me from what we have been told that the financing of this system is relying on installments paid by participants in partnership with businessmen . Those contributions THEN USED for the improvement and development of health services in both quantity and quality. I REALLY hope this work because there is large numbers of foreign workers in many institutions and are putting load on the health system up to 28% of the hospitalized patients!!! All over the kingdom which reflected negatively on the services provided by the kingdom to the Saudi citizens in certain times.