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Am I the only one that worries that the cleaning lady will think my house is too dirty so I clean before she gets here?
It must have been so easy in the midbar. Ok everyone, all tents, 30 feet to the right. DONE!!
OK, I think the mods have to implement some new rules here. Many people like to portray themselves as physicians and give out medical advice. Health, Mod-80, maybe some others, yet none of them ever posts credentials. And thats fine, the internet affords us the ability to be completely anonymous. But, in as much as we couldn’t, and shouldn’t rely on blog rabbonim, we shouldnt rely on blog physicians. So much so, that I think that the mods should contact those people who portray themselves as medical professionals and have them provide credentials. In the absence of such, all medical posts should be taken as personal opinion. If one of our “physicians” declines to provide credentials, their posts should be tagged as a non-pro medical opinion. Lots of people can cut and paste like ‘health’ does. That doesnt detract from his opinion but it should not be construed as having come from a physician. There is a reason real MD’s hate “Dr. Internet”. Its because the basic knowledge without a huge backing of experience means nothing. For instance, A1C translates to an average. Think about exams from school. You get a 100 first, then your average is 100. The next is a 50, now your average is a 75. To move your average up again will take an extraordinary amount of 100’s. And not everyone will be able to do it. So, any downward movement of an A1C (ie: a better grade average)is an extraordinary accomplishment. It takes hard work and diligence.
This very understanding/chochma is why you cant cut and paste articles from webMD and the like. And why you cant run your life and take its advice literally. Because it doesnt give you the background and understanding that is exhibited by your personal physician. Labs are just numbers, if every off number were treated we would all be hospitalized.
Bottom line: Mods, please take issue with anyone who claims to be a medical doctor and is not willing to provide credentials. Their posts giving medical advice should have a disclaimer that though they claim to be a Dr, they declined to provide documentation. I think it would solve a lot of problems.
Disclaimer: I am not a physician, just an incredibly well educated allied health practitioner.
I think I’m getting a nevuah….. I see this topic being closed veeeery soon.
You know that left handed in Latin is sinister.
Try supreme health. I think its on 46 and 16. they have alot of good GF products. Excellent breads and rugelach.
He who is merciful to the cruel, will end up being cruel to the merciful. I think the time for mercy and restraint has passed.
IMHO, I no longer consider them Yiddin. I would not use one for a minyan. I won’t eat their shechitah. I don’t trust their kashrus. I won’t let them intermarry with my family. I won’t drink or eat with them. They are to me, nochrim. Just plain old non Jews. I have refused to answer their kaddish in shul, minyan or not. tthey should not have aliyos, nor any other kibud in shul. They might as well go be mechalel shabbos for all I care. They are not self hating Jews. They are not Jews at all. I would not be mechalel shabbos to save one. They are simply non-entities. Husks of human beings.
Did anyone care to ask if there were any medical issues? I didn’t read the article but maybe he is just tired. OSA can cause excessive daytime sleepiness. Metabolic issues can be at play here too. Does he snore? its a big giveaway that he has OSA if he does. I had OSA all through yeshiva. It made me foggy all the time, unable to concentrate, and impossible to wake up in the AM. Just a thought.
Oy, CShapiro, I glanced waaay too quickly at your tag and for a minute thought it said enema. I gasped and re-read it, then I was fine. Whew!!!
I eat my peas with honey,
Ive done it all my life.
I eat my peas with honey,
’cause it keeps them on the knife.
Wolf, I’m sorry but this is an uncharacteristically dumb post. A wolf is cunning and smart (as your posts usually reflect) are you turning into a turkey? In a volunteer relationship you do not owe anything to the “employer”. There is no fiduciary relationship. There is nothing to “repay” as you put it. There is no halachic issue here. Next you’ll be asking to tithe salt. Seriously, there are real issues available for theoretical halchic discourse. This is not one of them.
Ctrl Alt Del (Wishes he could Ctrl Alt or Del some posts)
Hey, that would be a nice tag.
I don’t understand why my post came through twice. Can someone fix that?
Ben Franklin had it right “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic”. This is exactly what is happening in our country today. A friend of mine told me this interesting analogy. It will appeal to those in the medical field. Take the human body. So intricate. So delicate. So infuriatingly complex. When something goes wrong, we try to help it. Not breathing? We can breath for you. Heart not beating? We can have it beat for you(within reason). Kidneys don’t work? We can do that too. But for all our best intentions and abilities whatever we lay our hands on seem to go wrong in some way or another. We never seem to be able to replace the “being human” aspect of humanity. For all our efforts we cannot simulate being human for a human. we can emulate the “vital signs” but its never enough. Its the same with government, or any centralized power. Government cannot replace what it is to be human. Drive, desire, accomplishment, ability, morality, ethics, etc etc etc. All aspects of human nature. God given. Any attempt at replacing them will ultimately result in failure. And its usually a catastrophic failure. No entity/program can replace the normal operation of a human being. Not in the physical sense nor the mental sense. The concept of the “union” is that by being a member, the “union” will take care of all of your needs. Sounds nice right? But in realty, it has to have a downside. Only in this case the downside is the taxpayer. So in the quest for “taking care of the vital signs of one part of humanity, we must sacrifice the other part. Like I said, its impossible to replace the humanity of being human without treading and ruining some part. I have been in many public sector unions over the years, and they all end in corruption and disillusionment. It simply is not sustainable. One other point. Historically, unions were opposite/against their industrial employers. The worker against the the employer. Where the worker fights to get whatever he/she can eek out of the employer. In the public sector case, its the unions against the taxpayer? In other words they are fighting to take more of your money. Isn’t that ridiculous? The union thinks you the taxpayer are their enemy.
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Walter Krumkite??
Rosie my boy, what makes you think nursing is a womans field of work? professional nursing has only been around about 100 years. Who do you think took care of patients before that? Have you read any ancient medical texts (Greek or Almoravid/Almohad)? If you did you would know that many many caregivers were MEN. Dating as far back the times of the gemara (and even further). Or did you think that only women took care of the sick men. In actuality, there were mens hospitals and womens hospitals.
Health, you couldn’t be more wrong on the state of the nursing profession, and your limited grasp of the general allied health field is suprising since you have suggested that you are a physician of some sort. The.Nurse is correct. There are almost no nursing positions available in the greater New York area. Nursing home expereience is actually frowned upon by hospital administrators. While the overall field is good, at this time and in the NY area there are almost no jobs to be had. Its a simple supply and demand equation. Large supply + little demand = no hiring. I am sure it will change at some point, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
“grind some oats into flour, try to make a loaf of bread out of it, and get back to me.”
If you start relying on what you can produce or replicate from the torah, (to test out what has been previousely set down as halachah) you will be throwing out a LOT of torah. Many, many things that the Gaonim have said don’t seem to fit with our modern day understanding of anatomy and physiology but we don’t throw that out do we? They also stated that cheese can only be made out of milk from kosher animals yet you can find porcine cheese. And even examples of human milk cheese. the point is that even if our scientific testing doesnt corroborate what the halacha is we don’t throw it out. Vastly greater torah minds have seen fit to include oats in the count of chameshet minei dagan.
Shticky, please don’t be gullible. Name of the patient? Names of the Doctors? Name of his wife? Is the patient still alive? Can he come forward? What was the treatment given by Dr. Adler? What was the diagnosis by the other physicians? The second and third opinions? Any record of the “conference” where a lay person would present a medical case study to a room full of physicians based on “notes” given to her by a physician in another country? Lotsa holes in this story. Maybe it happened. I dont know.
Of course I am kidding. I don’t think anyone has any shaila at this point that smoking is a killer. While not my job per se, I dabble in critical care. Many many of the patients I see, could have had vastly better and longer lives had they not smoked..
There is no doubt that SOMETIMES newer treatments are not an improvement over older ones. Take tb for example. An older treatment of collapsing the affected lobe and then reinflating it later works as well if not better than a long course of rifampin. But please be careful when reading these stories. I don’t know how much truth there is to them. Seems there is almost never an involved party around any more whom you corroborate it with. Oy pardon my terrible grammar.
I encourage people to smoke. It ensures I will be gainfully employed. What??? I need to feed my family too!
I don’t know. I’ve tried to post some interesting topics but the threads that I try to start don’t seem to make through the mods. They ConTRoL, or ALTernately DELete what I have to say. Sometimes it seems arbitrary.
Chas v’chalila!-YW-Mod.
Gavra, Surly you dont think that NYS would make it legal to give your own 5 year old a beer right? please delve a bit further, the law limits the the rise in BAC in those instances to 0.02%. Like i calculated before, for a 140lbs male, that equates to 5oz of wine, or 1 shot, or 1(one) 12oz beer.
“How many times have we all seen inebriated bochrim throwing up on the streets, or wandering into the streets (into traffic) or just generally “making a scene” on the streets on Purim that is truly a chilul HaSh-m?!?” THANK YOU AIN!!!! A voice of reason!!
People are so quick to defend the practice of highschoolers and young men drinking to excess on purim, but when the tragedy ChVSh happens, they all fall like Daas, “not that he condones it”. Thats a cop out. And for those who think that because the Shulchan Orech says the mitzvah is to get drunk, therefore they can be bombed out of their heads I have this gem, dont think for a moment that your drinking was like the mechaber’s drinking. if you do, your a fool. I have zero doubt that if any of the Rishonim, Achronim, or ANY gadol of the past or present or future would see the excesses and drunkenness practiced in the name of a mitzvah, they would ban its practice. Devarim 4:15 A D’ORAYSA. Ad d’lo? M’derabannan at best. I cant understand the drive to defend this practice. It is beyond me. Do you let your kids smoke? Do weed? for heavens sake, people regulate how much sugar their kids ingest more closely than they do alcohol. A great story that happened to me in Shoprite illustrates this point. A young yeshiva kid was in the soda aisle looking at some glass bottles of Coke and asked his mother if he could get it. She said the glass bottles were too small and not worth the price but that she would buy a 2 liter bottle. He then said but the glass bottles are cool because it looks like your drinking a beer. He looked all of 10 years old. Think its not your problem, think again. I’m done responding to this thread. Its too aggravating.
One update, while I don’t condone it, NY allows consumption of alcohol in private between ages 18 and 21. But those persons are not allowed to drink their BAC above 0.02%. In NJ its still prohibited to drink alcohol until your 21. Just in case you were wondering, a 140lbs person who drinks 5oz of wine ends up with a BAC of 0.03%. Based on calculation. So in NY you can safely give an 18 year old 5oz of wine. This is not a legal opinion just my understanding of the law IMHO.
As for the concern on being moser, I will probably defend myself upstairs with the little girl not killed by a car, by the bochur who made it to shiur the next day instead of ending up in an ER vomiting for 3 hours or worse, wrapped around a train pylon, by the real simchah of the celebration of purim and not the stupor, by the bochur who grows up not using mind altering substances every shabbos at the club, and by all the chillul hashem avoided.
Do you realize what your defending?? This is not bris milah we are talking about. Its not d’oraysa!! You are talking about life altering issues. If you want to compare weightinis of issues, should ad delo yadah outweigh ushmartem es nafshosechem meod?
Daas you specific answers to my objections are completely undone by your last statement.
“Lest anyone think that I am advocating young bochurim getting dangerously drunk, I am not. I am merely pointing out the weakness of these arguments.”
I love the disclaimer at the end. it belies your your true feeling that somehow you too are uncomfortable with the drinking going on.
PS can anyone please cite the source that it is a mitzvah (from the word tzavaah meaning commandment)? You have what may be at best a d’rabbanan. Im not sure of even that.
Canine, please read the law closely. If you buy it for someone who cant you have broken the law.”M”, I’m not sure what your getting at. Real, Iybyu has it right. You can report to the police and or social service agencies. I dont understand, have you not realized that drinking is a major problem in the jewish community on purim? And that it extends throughout the year too. Iyhbyu, a mandatory reporter means as follows. Anyone who is in the following professions MUST report distribution of alcohol to minor to the proper authorities. EMS, police, firefighter, physician, social work, nurse, psychologist, basically any licensed or certified “caretaker” must report certain things to the authorities when encountered. In our times, we should not be giving alcohol to those who should not be imbibing. Its that simple. Once again, why havent people latched on to mitzvahs that dont involve alteration of mental status. And anyway, I dont recall ad dilo yadah as being listed in azharot of anyone, its not part of the 613, why is there so much focus on this one almost insignificant mitzvah (if it can be called a mitzvah at all). It disturbs me how far people will go to defend this practice. Its not safe, its not legal, it should be stopped. i’m no prohibitionist but those under 21 should not drink. Period.
I have never understood why this “mitzvah” inspires so many to be mekayem it so diligently. I have no doubt in my mind that if someone would piously recite tehillim for a choleh instead of drinking himself to oblivion , that ad meah v’esrim, hashem would not hold it against him. Its a foolish pursuit. And illegal for anyone under 21 (at least in NY/NJ) to be mekayaim. Its also illegal for anyone to give alcohol to someone who is under 21. Our shuls Rav makes that perfectly clear right after maariv purim night. I am a mandatory reporter and I have, and will continue in the future to report distribution of alcohol to those under 21. Even on purim.
“There is no problem so great that I can’t run away from it”. Me.
Shlishi, hah very funny. Lets see how many people catch on.
A bitterant helped me stop biting my nails.
Cwm. One of very few English words with no vowels. I won a massive scrabble game against (my very very competitive) mother-in-law. It was an awesome win. And you will never guess where I learned it. Ready? Here come some memories….. From one volume in a series of childhood books called….Encyclopedia Brown. HAH!! And it means valley. From Welsh, but still adopted into English. I will never forget her face as she challanged the word and went to her Oxford dictionary and there it was. Of course, you realize I was in a major doghouse after that. Good times…good times……
I wonder if this one will make it through.
No, it wont.
Oh boy, here we go again. Why is there such a propensity for frum jews to follow everything else but real medicine? First I saw the foot orthitic guy, He claimed he could treat diabetes with a foot orthitic!!! Then there is camaya man, I won’t even touch this one. Next we have the iridology idiot, Stare into my eyes and you will see…… MY EYE!! The best was a chiropractor (not knocking chiropractics, just some practitioners)who developed a machine (that’s only avail in HIS office) that (at least according to his full page ad in many very well known jewish circulars) can cure apnea. YES!!! the next time someone comes into the ED I am going to page for a stat chiropractor!! OK, I am being very silly, but doesn’t it seem that there are a lot of frum jews falling for this? Natureopathy, Chi healing, magnetic forces, phrenology, super water. Every other day I see some quack advertising some homeopathic (borders on avodah zarah) or natural medicine. Vitamins, minerals, and exercise are all wonderful, but people really… If something is wrong see a physician. Now, people always argue that “in ancient times they had remedies for some ailments”. Yes, they did. And they were based mostly on guessing. With the exception of Arabic learning that honed the scientific process, medicine was largely best guess. Even those herbs and mixtures that were helpful were only marginally so. Its a perpetuated fallacy that “ancient” medicine is better than modern medicine.
There is a fascinating write up of gog and magog on wikipedia. Worth a look.
Aries, I understand that there is a certification behind it but there is still no licensure. Look, if there is a bad life coach out there who is above them to complain too? Can their certification be taken away? Can they be reprimanded? And by whom? There is no governing body. You can get these certifications online too. As for the social workers, they have a license. And thus if there is ever a real problem the client does have recourse. And there are certain guidelines that they have to follow. It is very easy for an unlicensed person to overstep their bounds, because there really are no “bounds”. I am sure that there are wonderful people who are life coaches and are good at it too. And I’m sure that they are very helpful to their clients. I just am very wary of their training and therefore I always suggest that if a person needs to work through something that they seek out someone who has licensure in some discipline. Social work, medicine, or psychology.
Having had some really bad experiences with “life coaches” that have “coached” some of my family members, I would always advise that people looking for that kind of help go to a LICENSED healthcare practitioner. Licensing offers oversight, regulation, and recourse for the client. No offense aries, but licensed mental health professionals should be consulted as first line therapy. You wouldn’t take care of a physical ailment by asking someone who “read a lot of medical textbooks”, you would ask a licensed physician. Just MHO.
Look, its a very possible scenario where a person can look in front of his property on shabbos and see that melted snow or standing water (due to poor drainage) has frozen solid overnight (like tonight). Or that it has snowed overnight or snow has been plowed onto the walk in front of his house. I think its a valid question to ask that if a bor has found its way onto your property, can you remedy it on shabbos. There is no question in my mind that it is a clear and present danger to the passersby. Falls on ice and snow can be devastating. With injuries ranging from bruised soft tissue (and egos) to broken bones, to brain hemorrhage. It is not a sakana that can be taken lightly. I just don’t know if it is docheh shabbos. I am ever so vigilant with clearing snow and ice from in front of my property. So much so that I will heavily salt standing water to prevent freezing overnight.
ItcheSrulik “He also considers proven mathematical theorems (theora? theorae?) to have the status of divrei neviim.”
And your point is?
The Rambam had a very interesting take on this as he was a physcian/scientist, and a tremendous gaon. I will paraphrase. “If we see a contradiction in science and torah, it must mean that we don’t fully understand what the torah was saying” He seems to be saying that whats known in science is absolutely true, and whats in the torah is absolutely true. WE just didnt understand the torah, so to us it seems like a contradiction.