[Avodah] Social responsibility, halacha and psak

[Zeliglaw at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/12/2007 12:48:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
avodah-request at lists.aishdas.org writes:

At the  end, he brings the question whehter someone who has on  call
responsibilities should either try to switch his call with some  one
else, or, recognizing that he will be more diligent, deliberately  take
call on shabbat.   He brings down Rav Moshe's answer that  this depends
on the issue whether shabbat is dchuyah or hutra - if hutra,  one
should take, if dchuya, one should switch.
He then adds - that he  disagrees - that it is better that one tries to
keep an intact shabbat with  one's family even if shabbat is hutra -
and therefore avoid  call.



FWIW, one can certainly find many discussions and teshuvos as to what a  
prospective medical student , intern, resident or attending physician can or  
should do, ranging from going for the best residency without any concern about  
Shabbos to considering only Shomer Shabbos residencies among Poskim. 
 
Yet, one wonders why one cannot simply go for the branches of medicine that  
offer the best of both worlds, namly a superb medical training without having 
to  be Mchallel Shabbos or entering into the huge safek of Hutra/Dchuyah.  
Obviously, one can raise the issue of Hatzalah EMTS and what they are doing but  
WADR, Hatzalah EMTs respond to instances of Pikuach Nefesh or at least a safek 
 thereof, with Poskim ( RSZA and RMF) offering different views as to what to 
do  once their response is over, as opposed to serving on-call where one can 
argue  that much that occurs does not amount to Pikuach Nefesh, unless one 
assumes that  Shabbos is completely Hutra. 
 
Steve Brizel
_Zeliglaw at aol.com_ (mailto:Zeliglaw at aol.com) 
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