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Torah and Jewish Idea => Torah and Jewish Idea => Topic started by: Moshe92 on April 02, 2010, 01:10:01 PM
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I'm becoming more observant, but my parents are discouraging me. I would like to become a medical doctor, and my father who is an anesthesiologist said that being shomer shabbat severely limits your options in terms of medicine. I'll definitely talk to somebody in real life, but is there anybody on this forum who is an Orthodox Jewish doctor or is knowledgeable about this issue? By the way, I want to make aliyah when I'm older, but I'll probably go to medical school and do training in the U.S. if I become a doctor.
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I'm becoming more observant, but my parents are discouraging me. I would like to become a medical doctor, and my father who is an anesthesiologist said that being shomer shabbat severely limits your options in terms of medicine. I'll definitely talk to somebody in real life, but is there anybody on this forum who is an Orthodox Jewish doctor or is knowledgeable about this issue? By the way, I want to make aliyah when I'm older, but I'll probably go to medical school and do training in the U.S. if I become a doctor.
I am familiar with this issue... I attend Shabbatons at Touro University's Osteopathic Medicine school and most of my minyan are young men studying to be doctors. They are Shabbat Observant and also are managing to be doctors. It is not easy to maintain full Shabbat observance and work at the same time but I know several who are managing.
http://www.tu.edu/indexca.php
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I'm becoming more observant, but my parents are discouraging me. I would like to become a medical doctor, and my father who is an anesthesiologist said that being shomer shabbat severely limits your options in terms of medicine. I'll definitely talk to somebody in real life, but is there anybody on this forum who is an Orthodox Jewish doctor or is knowledgeable about this issue? By the way, I want to make aliyah when I'm older, but I'll probably go to medical school and do training in the U.S. if I become a doctor.
It is certainly possible to do so. I know several frum doctors and may become a doctor myself.