Comments on: Antibiotics For Maran Rav Elyashiv Shlita

By: avi732

avi732 — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:40:41 +0000

Attention Editors,
Please post an update on the condition of the Rav.

By: avi732

avi732 — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:12:44 +0000

I was hoping to see an update on the Rav’s condition post Yom Kippur. Has anyone heard how he is feeling?

By: minyan gal

minyan gal — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:46:57 +0000

I beg to differ with poster #4. Even if your health coverage is “public”, your personal health records are private. They may be made available to other physicians or health care institutions, but the average guy on the street does not have access to them.

By: Homeless

Homeless — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:09:48 +0000

He has public health coverage. Therefore, his health and treatment is public record. That is on a physical level. On a spiritual level, he has many followers and concerned communities that NEED to know what their leader is going through.

By: JUST.ME

JUST.ME — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:57:37 +0000

Akuperma, I respectfully disagree on this matter with you. He is the Gadol Hador, and as such we each and every one of us care and need him to be healthy and strong for us, and therefore his condition is directly related to all of us.

By: QuestionForYou

QuestionForYou — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:49:39 +0000

akuperma is correct; the Rav’s privacy should not be violated.

Plus which: I’m not a doctor; but I was taught that unless one knows for CERTAIN that someone has a bacterial infection, usually antibiotics are NOT given, lest someone C”V build up a resistance to them, for when they are REALLY needed.

By: akuperma

akuperma — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:18:42 +0000

Unless the Rav has asked you share such details, I really don’t think such discussion of his medical condition is anyone’s business but his own and his doctor’s. It doesn’t belong in YWN.