Correspondence

July 8, 1987

Letter from Dean Purpura Regarding the Dangers of Patients Remaining in Hospitals (1987)

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Dean Dominick Purpura responds to Rabbi Lamm’s inquiry about patients returning home from the hospital on Shabbat. Rabbi Lamm admired the Dean, who served as head of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1984 to 2006.

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