Q.'Birth' shows that medical science succeeds only when it is joined to a refusal to give up. Discuss with close reference to the resuscitation scene. (Answer in 120–150 words.)
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The resuscitation scene dramatizes the idea that medicine is not simply a set of procedures but a discipline that depends on the practitioner's refusal to quit. Andrew has the right method, learned from an earlier case, but the method by itself is not what saves the child; it is his sustained, unhurried effort, continued long after any ordinary observer, including the midwife, would have pronounced the infant dead, that eventually brings a response. Minute after minute passes with no sign of life, and the temptation to stop and accept the loss is real, yet Andrew persists with the same careful rhythm of hot and cold water until, finally, the baby gasps and cries. The scene suggests that scientific knowledge provides only …
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