Doctor Could Face The Sack For Asking A Muslim Woman To Remove Her Veil.

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7043207/GP-52-facing-sack-discrimination-Muslim-veil.html

[dannyk13]

//the woman claims she refused to remove the veil on religious grounds and said Dr Wolverson 'would not continue the consultation unless she did', adding he was 'rude' and left her feeling 'victimised'.//
Will depend on who the GMC believe.I think that this probably due to the husband arriving at the surgery.

[ummmm]

What if they have an ear infection or something?

[furrypusscat]

What if GP had misdiagnosed the child through not being able to hear and understand the mother and something went wrong. GP would then face the sack for that also, so damned either way.

[JF85]

Thank goodness this is finally being exposed. For far too long doctors have pushed their extreme brand of fundamental medicine simply by never meeting a woman who was unable to speak clearly. I bet she had a beard too, and possibly a stammer.

I predict the whole edifice will come tumbling down and none of us will be able to seek treatment in the future unless we face Holy Mecca.

Where can I find this obscure publication that dares to tell the truth that the MSM suppress? I will be voting Brexit and muttering about how Jeremy Corbyn is to blame for Conservative politicians not doing what they promised.

[Zacs-Master]

Right on, JF.

[Sqad]

Royal Stoke University Hospital has a history of "medical confrontations."
What is a GP doing consulting in a NHS hospital?

Why didn't the "Dr" have a chaperone?
Did he, the DR, hear the woman, but not understand what she was saying OR did the Dr not hear her at all.....in other words was there a language problem?

It is extremely unlikely that this episode will go much further and he is extremely unlikely to be struck off.

[douglas9401]

'mon the doctor. Bloody farce.

[woofgang]

no idea what a GP was doing in a hospital. Chaperones are only provided when requested and it would have been unlikely to have considered that one would be needed if the patient was the child and not the mother.....and assuming he did ask her to remove her veil because he couldn't understand her, he is a silly man.....he should not have mentioned the veil but should have focussed on the problem which was that he couldn't understand what she was saying regardless of why this was. If he had said "I am sorry but I can't continue because I can't hear you properly" (not, you may notice, "because I can't understand you") and asked for an additional member of staff to enter the room to see if they could hear what the lady was saying then thewre could have been no complaint. I have done the same myself when dealing with people by telephone....you ask them to repeat themselves because you can't hear and you blame yourself or the environment or the phone line. Its people skills 101 and he should know this.

[Old_Geezer]

Can't be discrimination unless he was allowing others keep their veils on while trying to talk to them.

[aelmpvw]

seems ironic to me that if she eventually needed an operation she'd be the only one in the theatre with her face uncovered

[Spicerack]

//I have done the same myself when dealing with people by telephone....you ask them to repeat themselves because you can't hear and you blame yourself or the environment or the phone line. Its people skills 101 and he should know this.//

Aye, only he wasn't on the phone, see, woofgang.

// Its people skills 101//

There's a better name for it, Dhimmitude.
Because I'll bet your last ha'penny if you were talking to a man wearing a motorcycle helmet and couldn't hear what he was saying, you would ask him to remove it.

[THECORBYLOON]

If a patient had a speech problem and the doctor had difficulties heating what was being said,would he have terminated the consultation or would he have used other means to get the required information?

[Spicerack]

There'd be nowt 'ironic' about that, ael.

[THECORBYLOON]

Hearing even...am I catching the same problem that others seem to have with typing?

[Spicerack]

Oh. Didn't realise he'd terminated the consultation, corby.
Where did you hear that?

[naomi24]

He’s a professional who’s been working for 23 years. I doubt very much that she is the first veiled Muslim patient he’s encountered. Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadhan Foundation says Dr Wolverson should go on a diversity awareness course but I would suggest that this woman and her husband go on a diversity course. Perhaps then they'll learn that diversity isn't a one-way street and that in western culture it's considered normal to be able to see who you're talking to. Trouble –makers.

Sqad, I know an NHS hospital that has a GP on hand. Patients who arrive at A&E with conditions that don’t require A&E are referred to him.

[retrocop]

Disgusting treatment of a valuable and experienced asset to the community.Perhaps signs should be erected outside all consulting rooms that if you will not comply with a doctor's requests you can be refused treatment and find a doctor of your own culture.

[THECORBYLOON]

SPICERACK, the woman says she was given the option of removing her veil or he would not stop with the consultation.

[LadyCG]

Good heavens, where does this insanity end?

[naomi24]

^When people start saying 'No'. Don't hold your breath!