There's a case about it in England right now. Dentist wouldn't treat a female patient without a headscarf, and made her put one on to get treatment.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=482112
If you don't think this should have happened, would you support a doctor's, dentist's, or pharmacist's right to treat or not treat based on their religious principles? (For example, not giving a gay man Cialis or filling a birth control pill prescription for a single woman?)
And what is your religion?
2007-09-24 09:13:54 · 13 answers · asked by GreenEyedLilo 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm Muslim, no I wouldn't have done what he done. Why should I force the woman to wear a scarf when she doesnt want to? I would only be interested in treating the woman...not wasting my time
2007-09-24 09:22:27 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Unless the woman was a Muslim I don't see what right he had in telling her to cover up. Even if she was Muslim, I don't think a dentist, or any kind of health professional, should be able to discriminate due to religious affiliation. Health professionals are there to treat, not to judge. They should keep their personal feeling to themselves.
)o( Blessed Be!
2007-09-24 09:44:29 · answer #2 · answered by whillow95 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In some Muslim countries, male doctors and dentists can not treat female patients, and verse vicea.
2007-09-24 09:29:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He doesn't have the right to tell anyone to wear a scarf (apart from his immediate family).
Even so what if the women he treated were not Muslim's how would they feel when this was imposed upon them?
Thanks for the insight to this!
2007-09-24 09:25:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If a doctor or dentist doesn't want my co-pay, then that's on his dogmatic ***, I'll go elsewhere.
And I'd hope that the headscarves have something pretty on them, like flowers or ponies or glittery stuff.
2007-09-24 09:21:27 · answer #5 · answered by Brandon's been a dirty Hore 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I can not refuse to rent my house to someone based on sex, color, religion or sexual preference, that is discrimination. The same rules should apply to the dentist.
2007-09-24 09:23:47 · answer #6 · answered by 9_ladydi 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What is he doing talking to the woman without her male relative present, in violation of Islam???
2007-09-24 09:21:24 · answer #7 · answered by Pearly Gator 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
NO!!! Religion should play no role in doctor and patient relationships.
2007-09-24 09:18:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
no he had no right to insist she wear a head scarf. was his claim he could not control his desire if she did not if thats the case he should be locked up.
2007-09-24 09:20:59 · answer #9 · answered by Mim 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hit him where it hurts - patronize a different dentist. Period, end of discussion. When he isnt making any more money, maybe he will change his ways.
2007-09-24 09:19:23 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋