The Doctor's Dilemma : A Novel By George Bernard Shaw

The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by G. Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906.In the play a number of dilemmas crop up, of which the surface one is that of a doctor who has developed a new cure for tuberculosis, but has only enough of it for one patient. He then has to choose which patient he is going to give it to: a kindly poor medical colleague, or an extremely gifted but also very unpleasant young artist with a young and vivacious wife with whom the doctor is somewhat in love, which makes it even harder for the doctor to separate his motives for the decision.