Response to "Dillard's Dilemma"

In Dillard’s narrative essay, “A Doctors Dilemma,” the main character Dillard encounters an opportunity to sacrifice his own wellbeing and career in order to hopefully save someone’s life, and luckily he succeeds. The simple fact that someone might sue the very person who jeopardized themselves in order that they might live is disgusting, and Dillard had to choose if his being sued for helping an injured man was worth the risk. Oh what a selfish society we live in! Instead of thanking our heroes, we seek to plunder their pockets after they save us from the gates of death! Even had the man been paralyzed because of Dillard’s efforts, wouldn’t a life of paralysis be infinitely more valuable than no life at all? I am saddened more than anything, and I am forced to ask myself, would the convictions that ring so true in my mind now have tolled as bright in the face of a similar circumstance? I can only pray that God would strengthen me so I might lay down my own future to save a brother in need, and I heartily applaud Dillard for the selfless act he demonstrated for someone who might have stabbed him in the back anyway.