The Doctor’s Dilemma · Character
Dr. Blenkinsop
A worn-out general practitioner who has doctored the poor into his own grave, now dying of tuberculosis and hoping Ridgeon's cure might save him.
supporting
Also known as Blenkinsop, Jennifer, Blenkinsop Rising, Poor Jennifer, poor Blenkinsop, Kill Jennifer, Jennifer Dr. Blenkinsop, Blenkinsop Interested
First appearance: act i
As a supporting figure in The Doctor’s Dilemma, Dr. Blenkinsop is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Blenkinsop belongs to the unglamorous end of medicine, the private practice he once kept and now denounces as licensed murder. His own tuberculosis makes him a rival for Ridgeon's limited cure, and his recent luck — a Medical Officer of Health post won by curing a chairman with a pound of greengages — only sharpens the absurdity of who lives and who dies. He matters because his need forces Ridgeon, and the reader, to weigh professional sentiment against cold arithmetic.
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- Medical and Moral Spectrum
- Protagonist
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