James Dillard A Doctor's Dilemma Summary

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“A Doctor’s Dilemma” by James Dillard 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

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