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
אני בעז"ה מחר אמור לעבור ניתוח ברגל. אחרי הניתוח אני יהיה עם גבס שלושה שבועות ואני לא יוכל לדרוך עליה. מה עלי לעשות בתפילת שמונה
שלום לכבוד הרב. אנו שומרים נידה ב"ה כבר כשנה ועדיין לא נפקדתי בשנית. היו לי שני הריונות כימיים לפני יותר משנה וחצי( הוברר ע"י בדיקת
What is the medical definition of a goses and does the prohibition of touching a goses apply to a Jewish doctor touching a non-Jewish patient?
