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[Harvey Benton]

why would only doctors need special "permission" to heal
versus say any other profession (eg to teach, mend shoes, 

help poor, etc??)
Rishonim debate the status of medicine and doctors 
according to Judaism with Rambam an enthusiastic proponent and other 
voices differing.  The gemara (Bava Kama 65b) derives from a scriptural verse that “the doctor has permission to 
heal.”  The need for such a derivation indicates some ambivalence about a doctor’s functioning.  What religious problem motivated the gemarra......
 
??
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