The Doctor’s Dilemma

The morning Sir Colenso Ridgeon becomes a knight, his housekeeper worries less about the honor than about whether he’ll hire a footman. Then an old schoolmate reveals the two words that made his medical practice pay: “Cure Guaranteed.”

In 1903 London, Ridgeon is a celebrated physician newly decorated by the Crown—and a doctor whose discovery can save lives, but only a few at a time. When he is asked to make room for one more patient, the choice is agonizing: a selfless colleague or a brilliant, unscrupulous artist. The artist’s wife makes the decision more personal still. With sharp comedy, Bernard Shaw turns the consulting room into a battleground of conscience, ambition and desire. When medicine cannot save everyone, what makes one life worth choosing over another?

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