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Please do not lower this discussion to one that tries to qualify various rabbanim and determine their abilities.
Bottled water – the bottle contains tarfus? How do you propose that took place? The bottles are all brand new manufactured for the water bottlers. In addition, even if you took a plastic bottle that was used for hot, liquid, pork schmaltz, there would be no problem of kavush kmvushal because it is only kavush after 24 hours, and by then the taam of the pork is nifgam. Yoreh Deah 101.
Just make sure to have your non Jewish friend turn on the oven so you avoid any potential basar b’chalav cooking shaylos. That is, if there are meat and milk drippings in the oven and you turn it on you have a problem of cooking milk and meat together.
Also, I don’t know of any balabustah who would allow it, but I also don’t know of any who would have eaten on pesach in their grandmothers’ kitchens. Where food was prepared for pesach for weeks in advance in the regular chometz kitchen. All they did was roll back the tablecloth and designate the area for pesach. I don’t think any balabustas today would dream of doing that, and yet that is not a problem. Neither is not baking chometz in your pesach oven.
Remember, on Pesach even a mah shehu is not batul, whereas year-round the issur is butail with 1/60.
I would like to stand up for the kavod hatorah of Rabbi Blumenkrantz, zatzal. Rabbi Blumenkrantz was respected as a Talmid Chacham and a posek. While he is often perceived as a ‘machmir’, he explained that his thinking was that if you can get the product available without any problems or any chashash chometz, then why bother with the ones that have problems and may contain chometz. I would conjecture that the amount of time he spent researching all the items in the book are not compensated by the income from the sales of the book. But that is not the point.
I use the book only after consulting with my rav regarding which items i need to find kosher for pesach versions of. My rav holds that Bounty is fine if you discard the first three sheets, and that is what I do. The same goes for the shampoo, detergent, and deodorant lists. My suggestion is that you do the same, and depending on the rav, you may find that you are not running around KRM or The Pom with the book for only 1 or 2 products.
If you notice Rabbi David Feinstein writes in his approbation that he too uses the book for “any products that he needs” to look up. He does not say that he only uses products mentioned as KLP in the book. I am sure he uses many other products, which are, in his opinion, okay for pesach without any problems.
I think this puts to rest any sholom bayis issues. People should consult their rabbanim about general pesach questions just as they do all year long for their other shaylos.
CKV to all.
In all the discussion so far, everyone has failed to mention one crucial ingredient.
DUTY TO ACT. In order to be sued for negligence (not speaking about a civil suit), there must have been a duty for the negligent person to have acted and provided care. Being that this was not a medical facility, or a full-fledged assisted living facility (according to the news reports), the person who identified themselves as a nurse had absolutely no duty to treat the woman on the floor.
If a person is in a hospital, or an ambulance responds to an emergency and they refuse to treat anyone, then they have been negligent. But this ‘nurse’ had no duty to act, therefore she could not be found guilty of gross negligence in not providing care.
As far as the ethical and moral aspect here, I would like to think that many of us would have acted differently, however I would like to shed some light into why this nurse refused to help.
Much of today’s medicine is practiced and provided with only one goal in mind – don’t sue me. There are millions of dollars wasted on unnecessary tests, examinations, and screenings for the simple purpose of not worrying about getting sued. A disproportionate amount of health care providers’ time is spent on DOCUMENTATION – to cover themselves in case of a suit.
Providing CPR against company policy, were something to go wrong and the CPR caused an injury or was unsuccessful or something, it would have easily resulted in a suit against the facility and the nurse for providing unauthorized care to the patient. It would be somewhat similar to providing care in a DNR situation. In that, care was provided counter to the patient’s instructions.
And finally, it is a bit extreme to call this person a murderer, if you realize that the statistics of a CPR recipient walking out of the hospital are extremely low especially for geriatric patients.