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A med school gives each graduating student
a batch of 10-year-old copies of Newsweek
so patients won't think
they are new in the business

Jewish Med includes the following topics:

  • Medical ethics (Business ethics are handled in a separate forum)
  • Medical Halacha (although a final decision can only be given by your own local authoritative Rabbi)
  • Information about Jewish medical conferences and exhibitions
  • Other issues relating to Jewish medicine
  • Whether certain medicines are Kosher
  • Reasons for medications to be accepted as Kosher for Passover (actual lists of medications should be posted to the Kosher forum
  • Hospital needs on Shabbat
    • writing
    • offering medications
    • using electronic machinery and equipment
  • Counseling Jews who want to donate certain organs before or after death
  • Counseling Jews who want to give blood that may go to Gentiles
  • Counseling Jews who need to receive blood or organs from Gentiles
  • Counseling observant women who visit a male gynecologist
  • Counseling observant women regarding issues of negiah or yichud with doctors, dentists, and X-ray technicians
  • Free advertisements for employment opportunities that are relevant to Jewish medicine

Topics on other related areas will be discussed in their own groups, when available, and not on Jewish Med.


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