I’m a Frum medical student and one of the fundamental steps that allows a doctor to expand their expertise and graduate is completing an internship or residency program in a hospital and that involves examining patients and making treatment recommendations etc. Performing these duties under supervision by a physician assistant, senior resident or other doctor. In our days, it would include being a partner to decisions when to terminate or stop the treatment of patients that could be also children.
We have indeed received a significant number of questions regarding the current changes in the termination of treatment given by medical crews in hospitals for the terminally ill and dying patients. Currently a group of Rabbonim is dealing with the changes and how to handle correctly in Halacha those new conditions. The same would apply to nurses.
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