Toi: That Gemara is in the first Perek of Kiddushin, no? But that aside, I think the Gemara would agree that if someone feels ill but only learns and doesn’t go to a doctor then dies from it that he was Mischayev Benafsho for not seeing a doctor. The point is a doctor alone is not enough. That Gemara does not C”V mean that the only remedy for physical ills is Talmud Torah. Maybe that would be theoretically true if we were all on that Madreiga (I say maybe because even in that case the Rambam certainly wouldn’t say that). But it certainly shouldn’t be taken literally to it’s full conclusion. (Of course, though, if anyone has any trouble-physical or emotional-adding learning is a tremendous way to help overcome that.)
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