[Avodah] Should you go to the best surgeon?

[harchinam]

>
> ...The prevalent hashkafa today is that not even a leaf falls without it
> being a gezera min shamayim and that hishtadlus has no effect, it is just an
> illusion. Hishtadlus is just so that we avoid nisim guyim (see Michtav
> M'Eliyahu, Chazon Ish Emuna UBitachon and others). If so, shouldn't bringing
> the top surgeon be too much hishtadlus and a lack of bitachon? ...


No, I don't think that bringing in the top surgeon is "too much hishtadlus".
Any surgeon is only human and every human being can make mistakes, miss
things, etc. The "better" the surgeon is, the more practice he/she has had
and the less likely he/she is to miss things that someone with more
experience can catch. However, the outcome is still only in Hashem's hands
even if the person doing the surgery is considered the top person in the
world for that surgery. And just because a surgeon is not the #1 rated in
the world does not mean that Hashem can not send healing through that person
either.

I think that we are required to get the best doctors/surgeons that we can
find to do the job [our hishtadlus] and then we must trust that Hashem will
help guide that person as His shaliach for healing/cure. I don't have a
source for this but I am sure that someone else does, since I learned that
the above is the proper way to do things for a Torah Jew.

My understanding of things is though that if one is a "regular Joe" who
could only afford a regular average kupah surgeon that Hashem can certainly
still send a refua through that surgeon. But if one can afford a private
surgeon to be flown in then this is the level of hishtadlut that Hashem
wishes for that person to put in. After all, it is Hashem Himself who puts
us into whatever life/financial situations that we are in, no? So then we
can/must use all that Hashem has given us in order to put forth our efforts
for healing and Hashem will do the rest.

*** Rena
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