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  1. The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906. It was published in 1909. 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.

    • George Bernard Shaw, Derrick Vail
    • 1911
  2. The Doctor’s Dilemma, drama in four acts and an epilogue by George Bernard Shaw, performed in 1906, in London, and published in 1911. The play satirizes the medical profession and comments wryly on the general public’s inability to distinguish between personal behaviour and achievement.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. “The Doctor’s Dilemma” is a 20th-century play by George Bernard Shaw. First staged in 1906, this “problem play” involves a doctor wondering who he should give lifesaving medical treatment to.

  4. The Doctor's Dilemma study guide contains a biography of George Bernard Shaw, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. About The Doctor's Dilemma

  5. The Doctor's Dilemma study guide contains a biography of George Bernard Shaw, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. About The Doctor's Dilemma

  6. In 1906, George Bernard Shaw tackled a timeless debate of medicine and morality - how do doctors make ethical choices regarding the treatment of their patients? Do doctors prefer to take on and treat wealthy patients, rather than the poor? What are the ethics of such a decision?

  7. In this play, Shaw tests the humanity of a doctor and gives him a moral dilemma. And in that dilemma, familiar questions arise about the ethics of a healthcare system that can only be provided to a few and features a doctor who must decide who deserves treatment. But as Shaw himself said, he is not against doctors: