Star Healer

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Something struck Conway as odd about the latest bunch of trainees as he stood aside to allow them to precede him into the observation gallery of the Hudlar Children’s Ward. It was not that among the fourteen of them they comprised five widely different life-forms or that their treatment of him — he was, after all, a Senior Physician attached to the galaxy’s largest multienvironment hospital — was condescending to the point of rudeness.

To be accepted for advanced training at Sector Twelve General Hospital a candidate — in addition to possessing a high degree of medical and surgical ability — had to be able to adapt to and accept people and circumstances which, back in their home-planet hospitals, they could barely have imagined. At home an off-planet patient would be a rarity indeed, while at Sector General they would be treating nothing else. Furthermore, many of them would find it difficult to make the transition from highly respected member of the local medical fraternity to mere trainee at Sector General, but they would soon settle in.

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