What's next for Holland Muslim men refusing to be seen by female doctors?
France quite sensibly put its foot down on this issue.
THE HAGUE, 24/11/09 - Muslim women are allowed to refuse treatment given by a male doctor. Only in emergency cases do they not have this choice, Health Minister Ab Klink has said in a letter to parliament.
Klink says it "regularly" happens that patients ask for another medical carer. Usually this is because they want a male doctor and sometimes because the patient does not like the doctor's religious conviction, origin or age.
If the patient indicates timely that they only want a woman doctor, this should be possible. In acute cases, it is reasonable that a patient should accept the available doctor. Should patients opt for someone else anyway, the costs will be charged to them.
The Party for Freedom (PVV) had asked questions about a Muslim woman who did not want to have a male doctor attending her while giving birth. That a woman should refuse a doctor in an acute situation like giving birth seldom occurs, according to Klink.
NIS, Vlad Tepes
3 comments:
i am an atheist american woman, and I definitely preferred a female doctor in the delivery room. what's the big deal about that??
You are missing the point - first of all - in the Muslim world there are likely few women doctors - and that Muslims have a choice in Europe should not be allowed to be exploited.
The stories are so crazy - sometimes we just make a quick statement [in the blog] - missing the background stories.
Say for example - you are being taken to the emergency ward - and your husband is going crazy wanting to fight the medical staff or create disturbances - because there is a male doctor on duty !!
There have been stories - of an Islamic father and son who were escorting the mother to a mammogram - who were creating a lot of disturbance because they thought that there was a male doctor present.
But likewise - if women can discriminate - so can men - and a Muslim males might also feel it is right to decline being treated by a woman doctor.
In addition what is not being said - this is a part of the Dutch gov. strategy to introduce aspects of Islamic law into the Dutch legal system.
It is anyone's legal right to refuse medical treatment if they do not wish to receive it on any grounds, at least in Australia. I would assume it is also the case in the Netherlands. This is not Islamisation. This is the highly respected value of patient autonomy in medicine.
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