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

Gemara:

Nazir 

Halacha:

Birchas Kohanim,  Science & Medicine,  Taharos 

Collections: Rabbi Torczyner Medical Halacha

Description

Part of a CME-accredited Medical Halachah shiur for physicians. Background on issues of tumah for kohanim today, the types of tumah communicated by a non-Jewish body and the lineage of today's kohanim, and discussion of (1) Attending medical school and becoming an EMT, (2) Treating a goseis, (3) Mitigating one's situation by closing the door to a hospital room, and (4) Duchening if one lost a patient on the operating table.