treating an end-stage liver patient with possibly life shortening procedure
Dear Team at Schlesinger Institute I hope you are all well.Just wanted your views and possibly to point us towards some literature about the following case:Lady
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 Team at Schlesinger Institute I hope you are all well.Just wanted your views and possibly to point us towards some literature about the following case:Lady
שלו` רכשתי חומצה פולית מבית סולגאר ולא מצויין כשרות על האריזה, האם מותר להשתמש?
א. ברוב התשובות לגבי מעוברת שתאריך הלידה משוער הוא יום כיפור מתייחסים להקלות בשתיה בלבד מה לגביי אכילה ? ב. כמו"כ מה לגבי אכילה בהתפתחות