Rabbi Firer - a Reason to Question

Directed by Amit Goren; Produced by Galia Bador, Amit Goren.
58 minutes, Hebrew and English with English subtitles, Israel, 2008

Hippocrates cautioned that "The sick must battle both their illness and their doctors. It's especially true today, with medicine emerging as an incomprehensible series of specialists and doctors, options and opinions, experimental drugs and high-tech medical equipment. About 150 patients a day seek an unbiased second opinion from an unusual rabbi, self-educated in medicine. He can change the way the patients are treated with a single phone call, often to world-renowned experts in their fields. Admired by some doctors and harshly criticized by others, he remains a fascinating phenomenon in the tangled web of modern medicine.

*Jerusalem Film Festival*
*Hamburg Film Festival*

Category:

Education

Tags:

• medicine
• religion
• doctors
• medical advice
• charity