And then there's the countries, like mine, where you don't get a prescription at all. It's all done electronically, where your doctor will place the prescription on a server. When you get to the pharmacy, any pharmacy, all you need is your national ID number and they'll pull the information from the server. There's of course a label on the packing, but that's all. And it's in the local lingo, commonly known as a throat disease with odd grammatical rules.
100K+ visitors from this country play tourists in Do-buy very year, and a significantly larger number use DXB as a transit point to somewhere more pleasant. Sooner or later one or more will hit the front pages of the tabloids.