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I am a medical student in Israel and in a few weeks we will be starting dissections on bodies for anatomy class. I was told
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
I am a medical student in Israel and in a few weeks we will be starting dissections on bodies for anatomy class. I was told
שלום אני סטודנטית שנה ב ועלי לכתוב עבודה סמנריונית בנושא ניתוק חולה ממכשיר הנשמה. יש לי את הצעת מבנה העבודה ואת תתי הנושאים יש לי
שלום. יש לי 7 ילדים בגילאי 1,9-18 אני בן 42 ואשתי בת 38, שנינו עובדים במשרה מלאה מחוץ לבית. רציתי לשאול אם יש אפשרות למנוע
thank you very much- B"H my sister in law picked up the phone for me last week in Bayit V'gan. One question that remained unanswered