The Doctor's Dilemma
The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906. The thesis of the play, revolutionary for its time, was that medical doctors inevitably face a dilemna between the need to care for their patients and the need to practice often unnecessary operations on them in order to earn their livelihood.
| The Plays of George Bernard Shaw | |
|---|---|
| Plays Unpleasant: The Philanderer, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Widowers' Houses | |
| Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell | |
| Three Plays for Puritans: Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion, The Devil's Disciple | |
| Back to Methuselah: In the Beginning, The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas, The Thing Happens, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman, As Far as Thought Can Reach | |
| Other Plays: Androcles and the Lion, The Apple Cart, The Doctor's Dilemma, Fanny's First Play, Geneva, Heartbreak House, John Bull's Other Island, Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Misalliance, Pygmalion, Saint Joan | |