Date: August 16, 2012
This was a GBS play. An arrogant doctor has a revolutionary treatment for TB but limited numbers he can deploy it for. A young woman, with whom he falls in love, visits and begs him to treat her husband (who is a visionary artist but not very nice). He arranges an "interview" by a panel of doctors over dinner at a swanky restaurant. There they find out that a fellow doctor, humble, caring, poor, nice, mediocre also needs the same treatment. Will he save the artist of the woman he loves or his friend?
I can't really recall what happened to the friend. I do recall GBS was fairly damning of doctors in this time of somewhat primitive medicine and I know the woman became a widow and turned down the doctors advances. I also recall enjoying this but, perhaps, not loving it?
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