Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!msj From: msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Name the Book... Message-ID: <13@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 06:45:32 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.13 Posted: Sun Jan 13 06:45:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 05:51:47 EST References: <196@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 24 Summary: In article <196@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:SUTHERLAND@TL-20A.ARPA writes: >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 (sp?) 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. The book is by Alan E Nourse and is entitled "Star Surgeon" (I think that's the title.) Further details, the protagonist is the first non-terran to go through the program. Each of the various branches are color coded with Red being surgeons, Blue being diagnosticians, and Green being medicine (pharmacy) The hero is also accompanied by a little pink blob which saves the day from time to time by being a projecting empath. Mike -- Mike St. Johns Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!msj StJohns@MIT-Multics.ARPA (404) 982-0035