The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw that premiered in 1906. The play is about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources and the conflicts between the demands of private medicine as a business and a vocation. The eponymous dilemma of the play is that of the newly honoured doctor Sir Colenso Ridgeon, who has developed a revolutionary new cure for tuberculosis. However, his private medical practice, with limited staff and resources, can only treat