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[quote][quote]If he has said so permit me to ask brother Marwan whether he prefers to send his wife/sister/daughter to a male gynecologist[/quote]

Salaam,

The question is not about preference.  Dunya is not run by our preference but by the will of Allah.

However, if there is a female doctor that would normally be a preference, but a male doctor would suffice also.  In either case, if it serious, or very delicate I would try to be there as well.  I would ask you to consider the possibility of homosexual female doctors.

I have spoken to male doctor friends I have and was told that when examining people, male or female, is totally business, things are seen analytically and dealt with as such.

You have to consider at least three things when asking why we do not or should not have more female doctors: -

1 – Female doctors will need to, as a matter of course, or occasionally, deal with male patients.  Even if they are not supposed to, you cannot say that some situation will not come about where this happens.

2 – Also, unless you somehow force the situation of their being the same number of male doctors as female doctors (in all of the various fields), there can be an imbalance in the treatment of men and women.  This may by design force men treating women and viceversa.  Which would the defeat the point of the preference of female doctors for females etc.  Namely under the guise of protecting modesty.  This does not happen if it is men treating both men and women.

2a – I will add that the idea that a society would try to force women in to roles they may not want, roles which would cause them to sacrifice husband and children, is unjust and misguided in the second case; foolish and improbable in the first case.

3 – To see the private parts of a female (or male) is not acceptable for anyone but their spouse under normal circumstances.  So just because a female doctor sees a female's private parts does not make it any more appropriate for a female to see the private parts of another female.  It is just the context of a medical situation which creates the exception to the normal way of things.  Given that this is the case, it is nothing but preference and not deen and logic that leads to the request for more female doctors.  And preference cannot be the foundation of going against the pattern that Allah sets out for the family structure of the husband and wife and society.

Truly Allah knows best.

Salaam[/quote]

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