Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: A Doctor's Duty

Rabbi Steinsaltz discusses the permissibility of a doctor to strike. May doctors who are underpaid and overworked refuse to treat those in need of medicine? The Rabbi concludes by comparing an approach to medical ethics in which conclusive decisions are made to an approach in which decisions are left "up in the air" and to the discretion of the patient and family.

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• euthanasia

[braveharty]

doctors live in all areas and have no pappers, but when you walk across the street as i have for so so many years i become a doctor, i have been at so many saving lives situations, but so many deaths. i feel as if death is at my shoulder for other people, and it kills me inside. coz i want death to TAKE ME. but that is just not now, that has been since i was a young man, but its always me standing over them