[Avodah] priorities

[Eli Turkel]

In a continuation of a previous post in the very recent shiur of R.
Zilberstein
he reiterated (in the name of R. Elyashiv) that there is a difference in
choosing
priorities between private practice and a community.

One example was given a fixed budget to choose a drug that saves the lives
of a few
or one that relieves severe pain (bit doesnt affect pikuach nefesh) of the
many.
RYSE paskened that for the government they should choose to help the many
because
that is what most taxpayers would want. However, a private physician has to
save
the life of the individual. The priorities in the gemara affect the
individual and not the
tzibbur.
R Zilberstein used a similar principle in terms of choosing doctors and
administrators
in a hospital that the general rule is to choose the person that most
(discriminating)
people would choose.

One of the participants asked what if a majority vote would be to fund a
football stadium and not
a hospital. R Zilbetsein quoted a R. Chaim that most people are "shotim" and
a majority vote
doesnt account for such people

-- 
Eli Turkel
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