Should doctors/nurses wear a full veil?

What I will say is, your situation sounds like a minority and not enough to make a blanket generalisation. P

Veil doesn't equal a headscarf. And how would wearing a headscarf be a hygiene issue?

Tuck in their tie usually, but its preferred if it is removed as it can come out. To be honest wearing a veil is actually more hygienic than not wearing one, it prevents anything cross contamination, think of it like a full face mask. Ive seen Doctors and surgeons wearing a 'scarf' scrub, compared to the normal hair nets, the headscarf is more hygienic. Obviously you get disposable ones so hygiene in actual fact is not an issue.

Just do check - by veil you mean a muslim headscarf right? Not a sort of facemask to prevent transmission of disease...

Yup, don't see any issues that it could cause, unless someone purposely wants to be fussy.



Get hearing aids then, a veil isn't going to lower anyone's sound either.

I'm also pretty sure you'll be able to satisfactorily communicate with someone who's face you can't see, unless you don't answer your phone.

It is not part of the religion. Islam says a woman has to dress modestly, it does not say she has to wear a veil. There is no reason to wear it.

Also it is unsanitary. In most hospitals you have to wear their own clothes would be unclean to let others in

So, one minority is not allowed to be pandered to, but another is?

No matter what you say, Islam accounts for no more than 5% of the total population of the UK. That makes it a minority. But you just said a minority is not enough to make a blanket generalisation.

Such ignorance. Not all death people can use hearing aids.

And do you not understand how much communication is non verbal? Imagine being told you had cancer by nothing but a pair of eyes.

No. That type of job requires patient-doctor/nurse contact and trust. If you can't see someone's face you can't read them so you can't fully trust them, no matter how reassuring their voice is.

Put it this way: if it's immodest to simply show your face, how can we expect you to have an intelligent, practical, and non-judgemental conversation about sex or bowel movements or something like that.

The same way a tie and long sleeves could be a hygiene issue, I guess. If you're wearing the same veil/headscarf all day you could risk contaminating people with bacteria that are on your clothing, but if you wear disposable ones then that would eliminate the hygiene problem. It's still an issue with security, though, as each patient that comes in would have no way of knowing whether that is or isn't their doctor as they cannot see their face.

Have you ever been to a hospital before in your life? Do you know what ID tags are for?

It's not pandering, it's respecting their freedom to practice their religion, something the constitute protects.

Well, I'm not a doctor to really verify this illness that renders communication obsolete without seeing the person's face.

What I will say is, your situation sounds like a minority and not enough to make a blanket generalisation. Patients can choose their doctors, so I guess it wouldn't be much of an issue for you any ways. Still a shame you're so much against the veil.



It's a part of someone's [mainly female Muslims] religious practice. That's reason enough.

Such ignorance. Not all death people can use hearing aids.

It's not pandering, it's respecting their freedom to practice their religion, something the constitute protects.



It certainly isn't enough to make blanket generalisations. A small minority, who can choose their doctors, who somehow can't properly communicate without seeing someone's face, is not enough to have someone's freedom breached.

There will always be patients that have one issue or another with specific doctors, which is why you're able to choose - that shouldn't be a reason to ban them.



The veil doesn't block your eyes.

I'm pretty sure that Islamically speaking, a veil would be "waived" because it's probably a health risk ie: lots of "laws" can be bent in the case of necessity



Tbh,I don't quite think they need them

I think you're getting too far ahead yourself. In any profession where someone's health is of concern, your personal feelings never come into it. There are many doctors that have a dislike for Homosexuals, drug abusers, alcoholics etc. but they don't let their personal feelings get in the way of their objective judgements to diagnose their problem.