Health Beat STEREOTYPES page 33 • Nursing • Personal Care • JCAHO Accredited • 24 Hour/ 7 Day Per Week Service • Foreign Language & Hearing Impaired Intrepreters Available Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) Home Health Aide (HHA) Companion/Sitter Registered Nurses (RN) Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) Abcare's HomeHealth Exchange A Division Of Exchange Services, Inc. 1-800-70-NURSE Eric A. Brown, M.D., Michael G. Taylor, M.D. and Joseph V. Rizzo, M.D. Specializing in General and Laparoscopic Surgery are pleased to announce their affiliation with Oakland General Hospital and the opening of their new office at 27472 Schoenherr Road, Suite 170 Warren, Michigan 48093 son working the midnight shift by herself on a 22-bed unit. That resulted in parents not being able to leave their children if they ex- pected their children to get care. You would hand the parent the medication to give to his child be- cause you couldn't spend the time to wake the child up and give it to him. But I think nursing in Is- rael is changing now." Halachah enters into the lives of many Jewish nurses — for some on a daily basis, and often at critical times. Ms. Webber, who is Conservative and keeps a kosher home, worked Saturdays when she lived in Israel. "You can 'break' the laws of the Sabbath in order to save a life," she states. "One of my fondest fun memories is when I was in nursing school doing my obstet- rics rotation at the University of Michigan Hospital. The Lubav- itch rabbi's wife in Ann Arbor de- livered her babies in the hospital. I was the only person there who could interpret for the staff what was going on. She wouldn't eat any of the food, and she needed to use an electric breast pump be- cause she had twins. "The nurse was explaining to her how to use it on a Friday night. The mother was listening to the nurse, and she kept nod- ding like she understood. But she wouldn't use the darn thing, and the nurse was getting a little an- gry with her. "I said to her, 'Did you know you couldn't turn the pump on because it was the Sabbath? But if you turn the pump on and put it on her breast without her ask- ing you to, she won't tell you you can't. "So that's what they did." A number of nurses are more liberal with their interpretation of Jewish laws. Lauren Neuman is a circulat- ing nurse at Providence Hospi- tal. She also is Conservative, but, she says, "I don't keep the Sab- bath, so working weekends has never been an issue. And I've never had a problem getting the Jewish holidays off when I've needed them off." Ms. Neuman says her job is "wonderfully hectic. On a typical day ... I might be dealing with general surgery or open-heart surgery, or it might be plastic or vascular surgery. As a circulat- ing nurse I'm able to help with any type of surgery. A circulat- ing nurse is kind of like the pa- tient's guardian angel." As for working at Providence, she says without hesitation, "I have no problems at all being a Jewish nurse at a Catholic hos- pital." Rabbi Leonard Perlstein, di- rector of pastoral care at Sinai Hospital, doesn't see why religion should be an issue, either. His opinions about linking faith and medical professionals are strong. People occasionally say, "You're Jewish. Why do you do bedpans?" Cindy Diskin, RN "I don't see that nursing has anything to do with faith," he says. "Faith doesn't have to ex- press itself in nursing. Faith ex- presses itself internally. It's just human common sense, which dictates and speaks about a hu- man being's obligation to take care of other people. If you see that someone needs help, you have to help him. The alternative is to walk by and not care — to be indifferent to another person suffering. To nurse someone is to care for someone." 0 TH E DETRO IT JE WIS H NEWS (313) 885-5700 " Oh \' 4Acking Feet" If you are experiencing any foot prob- lems you know how painful it can be. Dr Lazar specializes in heel spurs • warts • callouses and corns • sports injuries • ingrown nails • mycotic nails • foot deformities • diabetes and fractures. Dr. Lazar can provide free transportation as needed or he can make house calls as needed. Dr. Lazar Has Moved His Office To A New Loca- tion That is Within Easy Access From 1-696 Daniel Lazar D.P.M. P.C. 15300 W. Nine Mile Rd. (2 blocks E. of Greenfield) Oak Park (810) 967-3668 Dr. Sabi Shabtai, center, a specialist on Middle Eastern affairs and terrorism, recently spoke on terrorism in the 1990s to the Medical Section of the Jewish Federations Young Adult Division. Pictured with Dr. Shabtai are co-chairmen Dr. Mitchell Milan and Dr. David Altman.