[Avodah] Social responsibility, halacha and psak

[Micha Berger]

(FWIW, my brother-in-law went into anesthesiology so as to have some chance of
well defined hours.)

I half recall an interesting machloqes to the question of whether someone
should trade their on time with a doctor who is mechallel Shabbos or not.

R' Chaim Brisker suggests that hutrah vs dechuyah only applies to someone who
wouldn't otherwise be mechalel Shabbos. Based on this shitah, it would be
wrong to trade your on call hours with a mechalel Shabbos.

The other tzad would be to say that it's better he be busy in something that
is arguably hutrah/dechuyah than unmitigated chilul Shabbos, and therefore
such a trade was advisable.

The half I forget is which sifrei shu"t I saw these in.

Tir'u baTov!
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