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
שלום רב לרב! 😉 אני מתעניין בעניני רפואה והלכה! לאחרונה עלתה בי השאלה מהו סדר הקדימויות בטיפול רפואי! למשל(מקרה קיצוני ביותר-כדי להמחיש את הענין): אם
This is the question: At the beginning of Sefer Melachim is the story of Avishag Hashunamit. She lay with David Hamelech to keep him warm.
לבתי היקרה קוראים בשם אופק וברצוני לדעת עם השם או המילה אופק מופיעה בתנ"ך היכן ואם בכלל?
