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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
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Subject: Re: Name the Book...
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Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 20:56:30 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 12 20:56:30 1985
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	"I read this when in Junior High, so i'm fuzzy on details.  If
	anyone can identify the author/title/publisher etc. I would
	appreciate it ... The book is set in a far future Earth whose
	sole export to the rest of the (non-human) galaxy is its
	medical technology.  The hero is the first non-human medical
	student sent to earth.  The book covers his training, and some
	of his early career."

The book is "Star Surgeon" by Alan Nourse.  My copy was published by
Scholastic Book Services, which means I bought it back in grade school.

This is a great juvenile.  It gently teaches that racial discrimination
is bad by showing humans dumping on the first alien to enroll in an
Earth medical school.  This is also the book where I first encountered
the concept of a colony of unicellular organisms with a single
intelligence.

  -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)       [UUCP]
                       (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]