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 Rabbi, My wife gave birth to our first child last year by (unplanned) Cesarian section. While we have been blessed with a wonderful son,
שלום, אני ב"ה 8 חודשים אחרי לידה ראשונה. החודש קיבלתי מחזור ביום שני 13/8/12 וביום ראשון 19/8/12 הכל היה נקי ואין על הפד שום דבר.
נשאלה באתר שאלה: אם משהי לקחה אם פונדקאית מי היא האם מבחינה הלכתית, האם האם הגנטית או האם הפיזיולוגית-היולדת. אני לא הבנתי את התשובה אז