The ruling on a doctor or healer being alone with a woman

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, how common is it for a doctor to enter upon a woman without a mahram (a relative one may not marry) being present?

Answer:
It is not permissible for a doctor or anyone else to enter upon a woman who is not lawful for him to marry unless a mahram is present, or unless there is another woman present with her who removes the state of seclusion. The important point is that he must not be alone with her in a place, even if he is a doctor and she is a patient. This is not permissible, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) . He (peace and blessings be upon him) said, meaning that the danger is greater. The bottom line is that it is not permissible for a doctor or anyone else to be alone with a woman who is not lawful for him under the pretext of treatment or the like. This applies to the professional doctor as well as the quack, the sorcerer who claims, "I treat jinn (the jinn) and I treat sorcery." This is a calamity today; there are sorcerers and fraudsters who eat the money of people. They claim to treat jinn, treat sorcery, and treat diseases. A woman enters upon one of them, and he touches her as if she were his wife, claiming that the jinn is in her chest, or in her breasts, or perhaps in another place. This is haram (forbidden) and not permissible.