【海外の反応】ヒジャブの女性は男性医師の診察どうしてる？→意外と原則と例外がしっかりしてた

It is not haram – especially if it's an emergency. But female doctors are preferred before male if it's possible.

If you ever read the Quran you’ll notice a pattern: nearly every expected rule has exceptions for reasonableness. 

For instance during Ramadan people are expected to fast. But if you’re pregnant you’re not supposed to. If you have a medical condition you’re not supposed to. 

Almost all rules have provisions for emergencies or threat to life. 

Edit: also Islam is a scholarly religion like Judaism. There is spirited debate and interpretations to answer complex edge cases. 

Male OB/GYN here. I run into this every now and again. I’m fortunate that I have many female colleagues, so it’s usually not an issue. But I make a point at the beginning of every shift to introduce myself and say they I may need to be there in the event of a life threatening emergency. That’s usually fine for most people.

If we do a c section or something, my female colleague will prep and drape the patient. Then I’ll come in once only the abdomen is exposed, do the surgery, and leave when everything is sewn up.

Islam doesn’t make it haram, if any man is kicking up a fuss about needing a female medic for their wife etc it’s culture or their own ego being the reason. Islam doesn’t stop women being treated by men. I know many hijabis who have received surgeries by male surgeons, many consultants in gyno are male too.
As for the comments about Afghanistan they just want absolute control of women, stopping women’s education is haram in Islam yet the Taliban have done it. So no, Afghanistan is not the example for what Islam says.

It depends on where you’re at. Some of the answers here about being treated by a male doctor as a reasonable exception are probably mostly accurate in the West and modern cities for all but the most conservative Muslims.

In conservative, rural areas this is less likely the case short of emergency, life saving care. I facilitated medical engagements and pop up clinics in Western Afghanistan and we had to provide female nurses, and security for the inside of the clinics (we had women from Kabul come out for those jobs, but I don’t recall a female doctor). Outside we could use male security, but Afghan men accompanied their wives and daughters and were quick refuse to allow their wife/daughter to be seen for any reason. Which is a shame. More than once our teams identified life threatening conditions and were able to help facilitate additional life saving care.

I also did similar work in Al Anbar, and while we were more likely to have women speak to us directly (I think only one woman in Afghanistan spoke directly to me in seven months), in Iraqi urban areas we still had to talk to the man of the family and they liked to be in the room for medical care even with Iraqi female providers.