doctor

a doctor

outbreak?

of measles

Finding the cure?

Doctors close to curing AIDS?

Cure on the way?

Pill to cure the disease?

surgery

doctors getting ready for the surgery

Checkup?

for your health

Doctors

Taking care of the sick person

doctor's exam room

photo of doctor's examination room

.....patient and doctor compatibility

The patient and doctor must share a good rapport.

Rx - the prescription symbol

The symbol "Rx" meaning "prescription" is a transliteration of a symbol resembling a capital R with a cross on the diagonal (℞). There are various theories about the origin of this symbol - some note its similarity to the Eye of Horus[2], others to the ancient symbol for Jupiter, both gods whose protection may have been sought in medical contexts. Alternatively, it may be intended as an abbreviation of the Latin "recipe"[citation needed], the imperative form of "recipere", "to take"[2], and it is quite possible that more than one of these factors influenced its form. Literally, "Recipe" means simply "Take...." and when a medical practitioner writes a prescription beginning with "Rx", he or she is completing the command. This was probably originally directed at the pharmacist who needed to take a certain amount of each ingredient to compound the medicine, rather than at the patient who must "take" the medicine, in the sense of consuming it. The word "prescription" can be decomposed into "pre" and "script" and literally means, "to write before" a drug can be prepared. Those within the industry will often call prescriptions simply "scripts".