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The Doctor's Dilemma | |
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Written by | George Bernard Shaw |
Date premiered | 20 November 1906 |
Place premiered | Royal Court Theatre, London |
Original language | English |
Subject | A doctor must decide who will receive scarce life-saving treatment |
Genre | problem play |
Setting | A doctor's consulting room; an artist's studio |
The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906. It was published in 1909.[1] 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.