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Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Questions and Answers - 26

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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what is it offer with um it's more than just healthcare it's all like any so-called risk-taking when it comes to health like and and um any there's any scientific study that comes out saying there's a risk for something have to be reckoned with or when does it have to be reckoned with um and and when it comes to healing how far should one go and what was the tur scruff on alternative medicine alternative medicine well first of all you're asking questions that touch on and i i and a very good book came out recently by rabbi tatz on medical issues in general i think he has a whole section there on taking risk and different types of medical intervention he is a doctor after all um now risk-taking is tricky first of all as i heard from harvard heinemann in baltimore a hundred years ago when the study comes out and says when the study comes out and says if you do a you are 100 times more likely to be to suffer than if you do b that tells you very little maybe b is 1 in 10 million and a makes it one in a hundred thousand that's a significant don't don't be content with a finding that gives you merely a comparative uh figure what you want is the absolute uh figure what you want is the absolute figure and that's that's uh that's number one number two is the famous chuva of moisture the outside of the broker about whether you can take a job that involves risk and he said you can because when the governor discusses don't delay paying a worker the torah uses the

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  1. 0:20what is it offer with um it's more than just healthcare it's all like any so-called
  2. 5:30actually help your health that's because not considered dark amount documentaries only when so to speak
  3. 10:38because of all the complaints that people have they go to the doctor 70 will go
  4. 16:13that the reflexologist would make a mistake and injure the person there's real power to change
  5. 21:17heard recently that um nh or mc i think it is national health and research medical
  6. 26:55if you if you press it up from 80 to 96 there will be four percent
  7. 32:04about it and if you say well shiloh can only applies but your own birth that
  8. 37:15in saying about each other that they're wrong in torah and in science so you know
  9. 42:54because who do you respect your respect talking about boys now your respect boys who learn
  10. 48:01is an amazing person he was a protestant minister united states he went to germany to

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