Health and  Illness 

בריאות ומחלה

A sick person is obligated to try to be cured. Therefore, one must not live in a place where there is no doctor, and likewise one must hire a skilled doctor, regardless of the cost. 

“And he shall provide healing” (Exodus 21:19). It is derived from here that permission is granted to a doctor to heal.<footnote data-num="89"/>

A Torah scholar is not permitted to reside in any city that does not have these ten features: …a doctor. 

A doctor who heals for nothing is worth nothing…a distant doctor will cause the eye to go blind.<footnote data-num="90"/>

Rabbi Elazar ben Pedat said: As the parable says: Honor your doctor before you need him.<footnote data-num="91"/>

The best of doctors is destined for Gehenna.<footnote data-num="92"/> <source>(Bava Kamma 85a; Sanhedrin 17b; Shemot Rabba 21; Mishna Kiddushin 4:14) </source>