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The Country Doctor
UNITED STATES · 1909

The Country Doctor

D.W. Griffith
medical duty moral conflict family sacrifice doctor's dilemma parental responsibility
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Synopsis

While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.

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