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Is an expiation incumbent upon a pediatrician who wrote a medical order to stop medication for a newborn, claiming the child's condition was hopeless, based on the request of a non-pious and scientifically weak consultant, even though the child's condition was not entirely hopeless, and is she sinful for what happened?

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The questioner is not liable for anything regarding the infant's death because she is a recent graduate and not responsible for the department. The judgment of experts determines whether the patient's death was due to negligence or dereliction of duty. The default is innocence until proven otherwise, as mentioned by Ibn Hazm, Al-'Izz ibn 'Abd al-Salam, and Al-Juwaini. It is permissible to disconnect life support in some cases, according to the assessment of specialists.

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