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Does the story remind you of ‘Birth’ by A.J. Cronin that you read in the Snapshots last year? What are the similarities?    

Answer:

The Enemy' is about an American-trained Japanese surgeon working in Japan during Second World War, who saves an American POW first by operating on him and then, helping him escape. Sadao realized that the white man in the US navy uniform had a bullet wound. He was in a dilemma for a moment but the doctor in him surfaced spontaneously and he started working to stop the bleeding.   In 'Birth' A.J. Cronin deals with medical ethics through the protagonist, Andrew Manson. It brings out that medicine is not merely a business whose goal is to enrich its practitioners materially and that the essence of being a doctor is the use of one's senses, knowledge, and experience to reduce suffering and improve people's lives. Manson overlooks the disappointment caused to him by his relationship, and seeks tremendous satisfaction in saving a mother and child. Both the stories underline the medical ethics that a doctor's responsibility to the patient is most important. In light of this, both Sadao and Andrew are true to their profession and duty as doctors.