DATE: Thursday November 13, 2008
TIME: 1:25 p.m.
PLACE: Home Computer
In James Dillard narration of "A Doctor's Dilemma", the author describes an awkward situation, which is, whether to save a life or not? While being descriptive about the accident that he and her friend Amy had seen near Gettysburg, he doubted about savings a man's life.
The injured man had the risk to become quadriplegic if Dillard attended him. But this was a matter of life and dead, and was his major conflict he decided to save the life of this agonizing man. Had the victim of the accident become quadriplegic, Dillard realized that his career in the medicine field would have come to and end.
After all the events that took place on that cold roadside near Gettysburg, as Dillard's described at the end of the story, he states that it was a foolish thing he did that day, and despite his oath, if the accident happened today he would drive on.
In my opinion, I think Dillard was being selfish at the end of the story. I know he was just trying to save his career when he stated that he would save a life if an accident like the one in Gettysburg happened again. I'm not doctor, but I think is just human nature to react the way he did and help when someone in danger no matter what happens afterwards.
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