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From: djl@ptsfb.UUCP (Dave Lampe)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Name the Book...
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Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 02:00:51 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 13 02:00:51 1985
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> From: Dean Sutherland 
> 
> 
> 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.  
> 
> I believe that this is not part of the "Med Series" by Leinster or of the
> "Sector General" series by White.  I think it may have been by Alan E. Nourse,
> but I'm not at all sure.
> 
> Dean F. Sutherland

The name of the book is "Star Surgeon" by Alan E. Nourse, copyright 1959,1960.

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