linkA muslim dentist made a woman wear Islamic dress as the price of accepting her as an NHS patient, it is alleged.
Omer Butt is said to have told the patient that unless she wore a headscarf she would have to find another practice. Later this month, Mr Butt will appear before a General Dental Council professional misconduct hearing, which has the power to strike him off. It is claimed that the 31-year-old dentist asked to speak to the woman in private after she turned up for an appointment at his clinic in Bury.
According to the charges, he questioned her on whether she was a Muslim and told her that if he was to treat her she would have to wear Islamic dress. He is also said to have read out a number of religious rules to her. He then told his nurse to give the patient her own headscarf to wear, the accusation says.
It is not known whether the woman was a Muslim.
Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs.
Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases conflicts with their faith, which states that Muslims should not drink alcohol and rejects sexual promiscuity.
A small number of Muslim medical students have even refused to treat patients of the opposite sex.
Omer Butt is said to have told the patient that unless she wore a headscarf she would have to find another practice.
martha said:Well, then. I won't let the door slam me in the Butt as I go find a reasonable dentist.
CTU2fan said:
Fixed.
Angela Harlem said:To tolerate or not tolerate? I find myself getting less and less tolerant as time goes on. I can see this a universal trend. Wonderful, huh.
Vincent Vega said:Their intolerance (not scanning alcoholic beverages or treating women, alcoholics etc.) doesn't need to be countered by tolerance.
It's their job, and they have to accept that people of other faiths do drink alcohol, and especially as doctors they are committed to helping each and every person.
If they refuse to do so, well, they have to change their profession. But we don't have to tolerate intolerance.
I'm opposed to gunning each other down, still if I were going to become a surgeon I would want to learn how to treat someone who got hit in a gunfight.
It's sad when intelligent people fall for radical, bogus preaching radicals.