The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906. It
is a problem play about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical
resources, and the conflicts between the demands of private medicine as a
business and a vocation.
The eponymous dilemma of the play is that of the newly honoured doctor Sir
Colenso Ridgeon, who has developed a revolutionary new cure for tuberculosis.
However, his private medical practice, with limited staff and resources, can
only treat ten patients at a time. From a group of fifty patients he has
selected ten he believes he can cure and who, he believes, are most worthy of
being saved. However, when he is approached by a young woman, Jennifer
Dubedat, with a deadly ill husband, Louis Dubedat, he admits he can, at a
stretch, save one more patient, but that the individual in question must be
shown to be most worthy of being saved.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_Dilemma_(play)
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