Q. I’m a Frum medical student and one of the fundamental steps that allows a doctor to expand their expertise and graduate is completing an internship or residency program in a hospital and that involves examining patients and making treatment recommendations etc. Performing these duties under supervision by a physician assistant, senior resident or other doctor. In our days, it would include being a partner to decisions when to terminate or stop the treatment of patients that could be also children.
A. We have indeed received a significant number of questions regarding the current changes in the termination of treatment given by medical crews in hospitals for the terminally ill and dying patients.
Currently a group of Rabbonim is dealing with the changes and how to handle correctly in Halacha those new conditions.
The same would apply to nurses.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a
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