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 46-year-old single (but looking) woman who had a mastectomy and breast reconstruction after having been diagnosed with breast cancer a little under
אשתי בתחילת הריון שבוע 14 עם הרבה הקאות. הרופא נותן לה נוזלים (אינפוזיה) פעם בשבוע כבר שלושה שבועות עקב התיבשות. מה לגבי צום ביום כיפור?
שלום וברכה, לפני קצת זמן שמו לי בשיניים קוביות וברזלים על מנת ליישרם. השאלה מה אני עושה בקשר לבעיות בשר וחלב, שהרי הברזלים בולעים מאכלים