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Medical Ethics: The Cost of Choosing Life

Speaker:: Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner
Date:: June 06 2014

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Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

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Collections: Rabbi Torczyner Medical Ethics

References: Gittin: 45a , Gittin: 45b

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Part of a panel discussion on rationing resources by reducing or eliminating life-sustaining care which does not cure a disease. Tied to the Ontario case of Hassan Rasouli, which went to the Supreme Court of Canada. The paper referred to in the recording is attached.

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