Medicine on Shabbat: Difference between revisions

==Elective surgery==

# One should make sure to schedule a non emergency surgery in the first three days of the week but not on or after Wednesday. However, after the fact and if one did the surgery at such a time and there is a situation of Pikuach Nefesh it is totally permissible to violate Shabbat like any other sick person in danger. <Ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 32:33 based on the idea of Baal HaMoer quoted in S”A 248:4. Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (chap 32 note 99) quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman who says that if an expert doctor who is needed for this surgery is only available on Wednesday through Friday it is permissible to schedule the surgery then. For background of this topic [[Brit_Milah#Delayed Milah on Thursday or Friday|see here]].</ref> Sephardim could be lenient to schedule such a surgery on Wednesday but not past Thursday. <Ref>Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat, vol 1, pg 60) </ref>

# It is permissible for a pregnant woman who is past her term to receive a hormone infusion to induce labor if the doctor feels that there danger to the life of the mother or fetus. <Ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (chap 32, note 98 (note 100, in new one)).For background of this topic [[Brit_Milah#Delayed Milah on Thursday or Friday|see here]]. </ref>

# If according to the doctor a women has to have a caesarian section and she can choose to schedule the surgery, she should schedule for the first three days of the week and not Wednesday through Friday. <Ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 36:4 based on the principle of the Baal HaMoer. For background of this topic [[Brit_Milah#Delayed Milah on Thursday or Friday|see here]]. </ref>  

# A doctor who is on call and there is a sick patient under his or her care, some say that the doctor should stay in the hospital or nearby so that the doctor will not have to travel on Shabbat<ref>Sh”t Igrot Moshe 1:131 and Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 30:26 </ref>, while others are lenient if it will ruin the doctor and his family’s oneg Shabbat. <ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (chap 40 note 71) in name of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach explaining that since there is a mitzvah of oneg Shabbat one is not obligated to leave one’s home on Friday in order to avoid violation of Shabbat. For background of this topic [[Brit_Milah#Delayed Milah on Thursday or Friday|see here]]. </ref>

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