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 Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Minkowitz M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and an Assistant Attending Radiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Shlomo is also the founder and director of The Gedaliah Society, a network of Chabad medical professionals, and can be reached at [email protected]
A patient has advanced metastatic cancer and the doctors believe she will succumb. There is one new experimental treatment which may possibly reverse the disease, but the treatment is dangerous, and if it does not succeed it will kill her.
The patient adamantly refuses treatment, preferring to die. Would halachah sanction his request?
How does Jewish law approach this topic? What are the expectations, and in what circumstances can confidentiality be overridden?
The prevalence of suicide in our society has been gradually rising. What is Judaism's perspective on this urgent and oft-times taboo topic.
Does Judaism view alternative medicine as a good thing, something to be tolerated, or is it actually forbidden?
Does Jewish law permit organ donation? Learn the background to this complex question in this in-depth article.
The total number of lives cut short due to smoking is staggering. Do we find that cigarette smoking is indeed forbidden by leading halachic experts of the day?
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