May Hatzoloh Members Return Home After Treating Patients on Shabbos?
Chazal instituted certain halochos and modified them for the benefit of society, so that people would not be put off becoming doctors. For example, the Tosefta rules that if a qualified doctor who is licensed to practice causes damage unintentionally, he is exempt from paying. Minchas Bikkurim writes, “Even though `man is always fully liable’ [for any damage he causes] here they exempted him so that there would always be doctors to treat people. The gemora (Rosh Hashonoh 23) also says, “All who go out [beyond the techum — the distance permitted to walk from one’s place of rest on Shabbos] to save [others] may return, so that people won’t refrain from going to help others.” Gesher Hachaim writes, “A doctor who is present when a patient expires does not have to rend his garment [as must other people who are present] for he would otherwise be unwilling to work as a doctor.” The subject of this question is another such situation. The gemora in Eruvin (44) says, “All who go out to rescue ca
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