Reply To: Frum Doctors

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Joseph
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ubiq: That answers for ER doctors, but not all other doctors. And non-yehudim is more relevant for doctors on Shabbos than Hatzalah since Hatzalah is mostly responding to Yidden, even granting there are exceptions, where doctors are mostly, by far, not. So it is a different shailos on this issue for doctors than Hatzalah.

Furthermore, many specialities mostly deal with NON-life threatening issues, including on Shabbos. And even specialities that have pekuach nefesh situations on Shabbos, the Jewish doctor will often go/drive to work on Shabbos and have many Saturdays at work where he gets no pikuach nefesh patients. Yet he went/drove to work that Shabbos without having a single situation justifying chillul Shabbos.