Shomer Shabbos Residency
Dear Dr. Halperin, I look forward to hosting you in Philadelphia in December. Currently, I am will be hosting yourself and the Avrahams. Dr. Avraham
is a person allowed to turn a feeding machine on shabbat for a severely brain damaged child that is fed through their stomache, given that using a syringe will not be efficient enough and also will send the food too quickly into the stomache?
also, with regards to working in a hospital in chutz laaretz where all the patients are non jews, what is the source allowing a jewish doctor who has to work on shabbos in this hospital- something about the way the non jews will treat us, if he doesnt?
1. a person is allowed to turn a feeding machine on Shabbat for a severely brain
damaged child that is fed through their stomache, given that using a syringe will not be efficient enough and also will send the food too quickly into the stomache.
But wherever it is possible, those action should take place “Beshinuy”
2. It is permitted to treat a gentile on Shabbat.
See: Abraham S. Abraham, M.D., FRCP, Nishmat Avraham Volume IV Orach-Chaim, section 330, mark 2. (in Hebrew).
https://www.medethics.org.il/articles/NA/NishmatAvraham.OC.330.asp
Dear Dr. Halperin, I look forward to hosting you in Philadelphia in December. Currently, I am will be hosting yourself and the Avrahams. Dr. Avraham
שלום, לפני שבעה חודשים ילדתי בניתוח קיסרי. לאחר הניתוח התגלה קריש דם ברגל ואני מטופלת בקומדין. בצום הקודם דיברנו עם הרופאה והיא אסרה עלי לצום
שלום, ידוע לי כי אין לעשות הפסק טהרה לפני שעברו 5 ימים מתחילת הוסת (גם אם אין דימום?). במקרה שהמחזור שלי נמשך 23 יום, האם