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
בסד לאשתי היו כאבי ראש חזקים לתקופה ארוכה לפני ההריון, במהלך ההריון פסקו הכאבים (קיבלה תוספי ויטמינים – קבוצת ויטמין B כמו כן מולטי ויטמיו
האם מותר לרופא להסתכן בהדבקות במחלה (כמו אידס, צהבת וכו') על מנת לרפא ולהציל חיים?
In europe and especially in germany where I study medicine in the fifth year it is an extremely common habit to shake hands while introducing
