elderly patient refusing PEG-feeding
Shalom, Masjalomchem? I really obtained very good memories and a lot of useful information from my stay in your Institute. Nice to have contacts afterwards with
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
Shalom, Masjalomchem? I really obtained very good memories and a lot of useful information from my stay in your Institute. Nice to have contacts afterwards with
אימי חולת לימפומה בת 65. לפני כחצי שנה נמצא בראשה גידול אך הוחלט לא לטפל בו כי הוא היה קטן והיה סיכון של ניתוח בגלל
שלום רב. במסגרת דיון עם חבר שמעתי טענה כאילו שכיחות התאונות בבריתות מילה שבוצעו ע"י מוהל, גבוה משמעותית משכיחותן בבריתות מילה שבוצעו ע"י רופאים בבתי
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