GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ethical dilemma relates to whether the doctor should inform the patient of his criticality and lessen hope or deliberately mislead him, and improve chances of survival by instilling hope.

Detailed explanation-4: -“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. The doctor knows that treating some people means killing others.

Detailed explanation-5: -The doctor was torn between two desires. The dilemma was whether the mother or the new born infant was to be saved first. When the doctor reached 12 Blaina Terrace, he found two women standing near the patient. He knew that the case here would demand all his attention.