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<DIV>In a message dated 2/12/2007 12:48:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
avodah-request@lists.aishdas.org writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>At the
end, he brings the question whehter someone who has on
call<BR>responsibilities should either try to switch his call with some
one<BR>else, or, recognizing that he will be more diligent, deliberately
take<BR>call on shabbat. He brings down Rav Moshe's answer that
this depends<BR>on the issue whether shabbat is dchuyah or hutra - if hutra,
one<BR>should take, if dchuya, one should switch.<BR>He then adds - that he
disagrees - that it is better that one tries to<BR>keep an intact shabbat with
one's family even if shabbat is hutra -<BR>and therefore avoid
call.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>Steve Brizel</DIV>
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