The Rambam says [Shabbos 2-2] after telling us in the previous Halacha that for Pikuach Nefesh we must violate Shabbos:
אֲמָדוּהוּ בְּיוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת שֶׁהוּא צָרִיךְ לְכָךְ וְכָךְ לִשְׁמוֹנָה יָמִים אֵין אוֹמְרִים נַמְתִּין עַד הָעֶרֶב כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא לְחַלֵּל עָלָיו שְׁתֵּי שַׁבָּתוֹת אֶלָּא מַתְחִילִין מֵהַיּוֹם שֶׁהוּא שַׁבָּת וּמְחַלְּלִין עָלָיו אֲפִלּוּ מֵאָה שַׁבָּתוֹת כָּל זְמַן שֶׁהוּא צָרִיךְ וְיֵשׁ בּוֹ סַכָּנָה אוֹ סְפֵק סַכָּנָה מְחַלְּלִין. וּמַדְלִיקִין לוֹ אֶת הַנֵּר וּמְכַבִּין מִלְּפָנָיו אֶת הַנֵּר וְשׁוֹחֲטִין לוֹ וְאוֹפִין וּמְבַשְּׁלִין וּמְחִמִּין לוֹ חַמִּין בֵּין לְהַשְׁקוֹתוֹ בֵּין לִרְחִיצַת גּוּפוֹ. כְּלָלוֹ שֶׁל דָּבָר שַׁבָּת לְגַבֵּי חוֹלֶה שֶׁיֵּשׁ בּוֹ סַכָּנָה הֲרֵי הוּא כְּחל לְכָל הַדְּבָרִים שֶׁהוּא צָרִיךְ לָהֶן:
[The following laws apply when physicians] determine on the Shabbos that a person needs [a treatment to be administered] for eight days. We do not say that we should wait until the evening so that it will not be necessary to violate two Shabbosos on his behalf. Instead, the treatment is begun immediately, on the Shabbosos, and even one hundred Shabbosos may be violated on his behalf.
As long as a person is dangerously [ill] - or even if there is a question whether or not he is dangerously [ill] - and requires treatment, [Shabbos] should be violated [on his behalf]. A lamp may be lit on his behalf and extinguished on his behalf. [Animals] may be slaughtered on his behalf, [food] baked and cooked on his behalf, and water heated for him, whether to drink or to use for bathing.
The general principle for a person who is dangerously ill is that the Shabbos should be considered as a weekday regarding all his needs.
If the person's life is at stake [as opposed to people who live to eat steak] isn't it PASHUT [a French word I learned in college when I was an exchange student in Paris] that one shouldn't wait until night [i.e. Motzaei Shabbos] to begin treatment?? What is the chiddush??
CONFOUNDING!!!😟
