External Conflict In Tim O Brien's The Doctor

There is a man in town that has caught a fever and asks for a doctor. The doctor arrived at his hotel, examined him, and gave him the prescription. Right when the doctor is about to leave he (the doctor) begins to tell a tragic story he lived once with a young patient of his. For the sake of one's happiness, people should forget about the morals and ethics of their profession. The doctor is an old man that is friendly, sympathetic, and remarkably sentimental. He knows well that his duty as a doctor is to respond to those who are in need of his service, independently of unfavorable conditions, such as weather. He lives with the tormented memory of when he was unable to save his young patient, which he fell in love with. The author approves
Because of the where the young patient lives getting advice from other doctors and medicine is extremely difficult. He has to work with what he has at hand and his own knowledge. His internal conflict is of him falling in love with his young patient, but he knows that can not be, because it would be unprofessional. Also, he does not if his young patient truly loves him back, although she confesses her love for him, because her illness is making her delirious. He can not cope with the idea that the line between professional and personal is getting thinner each time, and he is falling deeply in love with the patient. He feels shame, when he thinks about this. For better or worse his patient pasts away and nothing between them took
One is the young patient's bedroom, where the doctor is battling between his feelings and his ethics as a doctor. In the young patient’s he falls in love with her and apparently she does too. He knows that what he is feeling and wanting to do is wrong and feels shame. Yet the young patient insists that what they are feeling is alright. He just does not know what to do. The other setting is the hotel where the other patient or narrator is staying at. At the hotel room, the doctor sees the man has fever and reminds him of his young patient. That scene of a young person in fever makes him melancholic and wanting to tell the story of him and his young patient, of which he does. In that hotel room he revived his feelings of love and inability to save his dear young patient. His lived once again through memory his