Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!amd!dual!ptsfa!ptsfb!djl From: djl@ptsfb.UUCP (Dave Lampe) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Name the Book... Message-ID: <134@ptsfb.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 02:00:51 EST Article-I.D.: ptsfb.134 Posted: Sun Jan 13 02:00:51 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:27:59 EST References: <196@topaz.ARPA> Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 19 > 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. Dave Lampe @ Pacific Bell ..!dual!ptsfa!djl (415) 774-9917