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
בס"ד שלום וברכה ראיתי באתר תשובות לגבי מכשיר cpap בשבת. האם השימוש במכשיר מותר גם במקרה בו מטרת השימוש איננה סכנה או ספק סכנה אלא
What does modern Jewish law/medical ethics say about using the information/research that came from the Nazi experiments conducted in the camps?
אני אמור לעבור ניתוח שעורה, רציתי לשאול, היכן כדאי לי לעבור את הניתוח, בהיותי כהן תודה מראש א
