To provide an image display method and device and a medical image display program which can smoothly read images when the medical images are arranged and displayed.

A discriminating part 44 mutually compares the contents of the attendant information of the four medical images 17 displayed on an image display screen 46 respectively for items and discriminates the attendant information common to all the medical images 17 as common information 53. Other attendant information than the common information 53 is specific information 54. When taking an area for displaying the attendant information as the common information 53 to be located in the side of each of non-imaging areas 52 of the four medical images 17 where other medical image 17 is not adjacently displayed and the four medical images 17 as one medical image 17, the area setting part 45 allocates the area to an area corresponding to a prescribed area when the one medical image 17 is displayed on the image setting screen 46. The area setting part 45 allocates an area for displaying the attendant information as the specific information 54 to an area located in the side of each of the non-imaging areas 52 of the four medical images 17 where other medical images 17 is adjacently displayed and symmetrical with respect to boundary lines 55 to 58 of the adjacent medical images 17.