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The numerous calls and requests take up a lot of time for Rabbi Firer. However, considering the vital importance of the message that he conveys, he agrees from time to time to give lectures for various groups, among them senior doctors as well as graduating medical students, and even people from the intelligence forces who are interested in learning ways of accumulating inaccessible information and using it wisely.
 Naturally, during his lectures, Rabbi Firer sometimes comes across doctors who feel offended by his medical recommendations, and at a certain point they are even hostile. But after listening to his lecture, and being impressed that his sole concern is the patient's welfare, they change their minds.
Rabbi Firer tries to impress on them the feeling that in his recommendations he doesn't include the doctor's wish to accumulate more experience; moreover, he tries to convey the message that the right advice for the patient can be given only when the latter's benefit is the advice giver's top priority.
This is not an easy task. Advising a patient to leave his physician and switch to another doctor takes a lot of courage, but Rabbi Firer tries to do it wisely and gently. He never intends to offend this or that doctor; he simply advises the patient in the same way that he would a family member.
Even the commanders of the Israeli Air Force future pilots have decided that sitting with Rabbi Firer and quenching their thirst by absorbing basic tenets that guide a man who might fight at the forefront of the fight for survival, would make them into even better pilots.
His lectures have already become part of the norm for pilot training.
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