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Experimental drug testing (e.g. for cancer)
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(~50 minutes) You're only allowed to pursue medicine that is widely accepted by broad selections of your generation. That said, what is the definition of "widely accepted"? … Conventional Western medicine clearly fits the bill. However, it's not perfect -- there are some things that it's "shockingly poor at." You're allowed to do it, because it's an accepted standard. …
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is one obligated to employ conventional healing methods
When a patient refuses to take (life-saving) medicine, it depends on
why he is refusing. … could be healed by this doctor, but is reluctant to do something which is painful for
him, which is a מעשה שטות ומעשה תינוקות, a juvenile/stupid thing to
do, then we force the patient to take the medicine …
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Does use of bi-lateral cochlear implants eliminate the definition of a "cheresh"?
In short, yes.
How I know this is another question...
Rabbi Dr. Abraham Abraham writes in Nishmas Avraham [in the end of Volume 1, in the section listing the notes of Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg, …
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Doctor recommends pacemaker. Does the patient have to listen?
When a patient refuses to take (life-saving) medicine, it depends on
why he is refusing. … could be healed by this doctor, but is reluctant to do something which is painful for
him, which is a מעשה שטות ומעשה תינוקות, a juvenile/stupid thing to
do, then we force the patient to take the medicine …
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Pidyon in the case of Siamese birth
As per Menachos 37a, the payment is five sela'im per head.
בעא מיניה פלימו מרבי מי שיש לו שני ראשים באיזה מהן מניח תפילין א''ל או
קום גלי או קבל עלך שמתא אדהכי אתא ההוא גברא א''ל איתיליד לי ינוק …
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Is one allowed to wear a medical emergency bracelet or necklace on Shabbat?
Um, yes. Depending on the type of illness involved, it is certainly pikuach nefesh. (Usually, something that is identified on a Medic Alert bracelet is something serious)
Your argument that he is "[c …
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Can we violate Shabbos to inject a vaccine?
Shemiras Shabbas K'hilchasa 32:62 -- one is allowed to inject vaccines where there is a concern that the patient will become dangerously sick.
If a doctor feels that this is urgent, then even biblical …
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May we violate Shabbos to administer morphine?
Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ruled that one may violate שבת for the injection of morphine.
See שמירת שבת כהלכתה, chapter 32, footnote 150, where Rabbi YY Neuwirth writes that he heard from Rav Shlomo Z …
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Sources for the halachos of medical emergencies on Shabbos
This is a community wiki answer, which means that anyone with 100 reputation points or more can edit without review. Please feel free to add your own sources, keeping the structure I've set up. Also, …
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On Shabbat, if one can't sleep, may one consume valerian tea? Valerian root powder? Other no...
medicine is permitted. … medicine on Shabbos, and not against medicine working on Shabbos (Bodner, page 12). …
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What are the opinions on carrying medicine/medical devices on Shabbat?
My rabbi told me that I should carry candy with me everywhere I go on Shabbos, out of concern for hypoglycemia, which is a life-threatening condition. Hypoglycemia (also called "low blood sugar," or j …
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