givinig morphium to relieve the dyspnea in a fetus of gestational age under 22 weeks
bs"d Shalom Rav, I would like to ask the following question. I work as a paediatrician in a neonatal ICU. Recently I was called by
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
bs"d Shalom Rav, I would like to ask the following question. I work as a paediatrician in a neonatal ICU. Recently I was called by
ביקשו מהמשפחה לשקול לחתום על טופס DNR עבור קרוב משפחה בארה"ב, בגיל 80+ לאחר אירוע מוחי. האם מותר ? מהי דעת ההלכה ? בברכה א
שלום רב. קראתי המאמר על הגדרת הורות וברצוני לידע – האם עיבור מהאמבטיה יתכן? האם הזרע ישרוד , יוכל לחדור מעצמו למיקום המדוייק ותתרחש הפריה?
Shalom- I am trying to compile a list of practical laws that should be observed while in the anatomy lab. Shulchan Aruch in Yoreh Deah 367 and