{"_id":"668da0650b76658b4c233621","title":"How can a surgeon balance prayers in their schedule and surgeries?","question":"I am studying to plan on going into the healthcare field and I’m very interested in Surgery. I’m just in a predicament and I don’t know how this works, if some procedures take hours to do how does one pray while doing a surgery? For example, if you get rushed into a trauma that comes but the time of prayer is also the same time as the trauma coming in what do you do? What if you’re the only available surgeon able to do the certain operation they need, do you put your patient life or your prayer first? I guess the general idea I’m confused about is how would you balance a surgical lifestyle with your daily prayers?","answer":"{\"ops\":[{\"insert\":\"Certainly, the priority in such situations is the life and health of the patient. For instance, if you are in the midst of prayer and a patient requiring immediate attention is brought into the ER, it becomes obligatory to interrupt your prayer and attend to the individual. Generally, prayers should be performed whenever feasible, with precedence given to the patient's welfare. In cases where you are performing surgery and unable to complete it in time for prayer, you may defer the prayer until after the surgery. Similarly, if attending Jumuʿah prayers conflicts with your surgical duties, you will be excused, and you should perform Ẓuhr prayers instead.\\n\"}]}","tags":[{"_id":"668d9ff00b76658b4c2329a9","tag":"Contemporary Life: Jobs and Career","count":120},{"_id":"668da00c0b76658b4c232ca7","tag":"Salah: Timings","count":52}],"createdOn":"2024-07-09T20:41:09.880Z"}