Is it permissible for a doctor to treat women?
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Question:
I work as a doctor. Is it permissible for me to treat women, when the situation sometimes requires touching a woman in the areas of the major private parts?
Answer:
The rule in this matter is that women are treated by women. If there are female doctors, then the woman is treated by a woman and not by a man, as long as it is possible. If there is no female doctor and the woman is in dire necessity and ill, then there is no harm in a man treating her out of dire necessity. However, he must be cautious and not touch or expose anything except what the dire necessity requires him to touch or expose. He is restricted to the dire necessity only. Yes.
I work as a doctor. Is it permissible for me to treat women, when the situation sometimes requires touching a woman in the areas of the major private parts?
Answer:
The rule in this matter is that women are treated by women. If there are female doctors, then the woman is treated by a woman and not by a man, as long as it is possible. If there is no female doctor and the woman is in dire necessity and ill, then there is no harm in a man treating her out of dire necessity. However, he must be cautious and not touch or expose anything except what the dire necessity requires him to touch or expose. He is restricted to the dire necessity only. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز للطبيب أن يعالج النساء؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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