Since there are at least three people here who enjoy James White's Sector General books, I thought that I would start a thread for the series.
I managed to get my hands on an omnibus with the first three novels ~ Hospital Station, Star Surgeon, and Major Operation. I was delighted with all three.
It is really hard for me to believe that these books are so old. The first short story that became a part of Hospital Station was written in the 1950's. With the exception of two things (doctors are male - nurses are female; and an outdated notion of the physiology of dinosaurs), the books could easily be written today.
Sector General is a huge space station which serves its area of the galaxy. It has nearly 400 levels and 10,000 staff members of dozens of species. The patients come from all over and are in so many different forms it nearly makes you dizzy with wonder. The hospital has many different environments for the various sorts of patients - of various atmospheres, gravities, temperatures, etc.
I will certainly get more books in the series, provided I can find them.
Hospital Station (1962) Star Surgeon (1963) Major Operation (1971) Ambulance Ship (1979) Sector General (1983) Star Healer (1985) Code Blue - Emergency (1987) The Genocidal Healer (1992) The Galactic Gourmet (1996) Final Diagnosis (1997) Mind Changer (1998) Double Contact (1999)
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