Religion and Providers

1. Reproductive medicine and religious mortality

1.1. Religious mortality plays huge role in Egyptian test-tube baby making

1.2. Religion serves to restrict quite effectively how test-tube babies are to be made in Egypt and IVF clinics

2. Fatwas & "Official" Islam

2.1. Teachings of Islam cover many fields- spiritual, social, cultural, educational, economic, political, or medical.

2.2. Shari^ca- instructions that regulate everyday activities

2.3. Qur'an, Sunna & Hadith, ijma

2.4. Fatwa= religious opinion from the Al-Azhar. Indicates which techniques are 'hallal=permitted' or 'haram=forbidden'

2.5. Fatwa describes reproduction as marriages noble objection

2.6. Patients rely and put trust in Doctors to follow the correct religious views during IVF process

3. Movie star Doctor

3.1. Dr. Mohamed Yehia, director of the IVF-ET unit at Nozha International Hospital

3.2. Dr. Yehia and Wafik were first to introduce ICSI to Egypt in 1994, high success rates.

3.3. IVF/ICSI patients attempt to evaluate their doctors character, Dr. Yehia is highly recommended by most.

4. Problems of unfettered reliance on private health care sector in 3rd world countries, when there is no evidence suggesting such privatization results in improved healthcare for population

4.1. Adverse forms of competition

4.2. Lack of formal regulation

4.3. equity issues

4.4. Overprivileging of private-sector activity at the expense of the public health care sector

5. Quality of care: Patients perspectives

5.1. Patients look for physicians who practice: "patient-centered medicine" involving high degrees of "interpersonal competence" marked by caring, concern, and compassion

5.2. Dr. Yehia and Zaki- prioritize doctor-patient communication which reveals the high levels of patient satisfaction & devotion