TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The edition from which this play was taken
was printed with no contractions, thus "we've" is written as
"weve", "hadn't" as "hadnt", etc. There is no trailing period
after Mr, Dr, etc., and "show" is spelt "shew", "Shakespeare" is
Shakespear.





THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA

BERNARD SHAW

1906



I am grateful to Hesba Stretton, the authoress of "Jessica's
First Prayer," for permission to use the title of one of her
stories for this play.



ACT I

On the 15th June 1903, in the early forenoon, a medical student,
surname Redpenny, Christian name unknown and of no importance,
sits at work in a doctor's consulting-room. He devils for the
doctor by answering his letters, acting as his domestic