<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>why would only doctors need special "permission" to heal</span></div><div><span>versus say any other profession (eg to teach, mend shoes, <br></span></div><div><span>help poor, etc??)</span></div><div><span class="createdate small"></span>Rishonim debate the status of medicine and doctors
according to Judaism with Rambam an enthusiastic proponent and other
voices differing. The gemara <span class="smalldark">(Bava Kama 65b)</span>
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......</div><div> </div><div>??<br></div></div></body></html>