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Are frum doctors fated to become an endangered species? An investigative report into a looming problem
Chana Weinstock Neuberger, MD, a medical oncologist in Baltimore, learned many things in medical school. But during her first week of residency, she heard an unfamiliar term from fellow doctors that never appeared in the curriculum.
“Are you Shabbotaged this month?” she heard one asking another.
In her internal medicine residency program at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, NY, which arranged shifts in order to accommodate the shomer Shabbos doctors, their colleagues who took the Saturday calls instead were “Shabbotaged,” a portmanteau of “Shabbos” and “sabotage”  in other words, sabotaged by Shabbos. ....

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