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Review: Star Surgeon, Alan E. Nourse
May. 8th, 2011 01:35 pmSummary: After eight years of training on Hospital Earth, alien med student Dal Timgar is finally ready to go out into space as a Red Surgeon, a medical knight errant travelling between the stars to heal the sick.
Assuming, that is, he can overcome the prejudices of Earth's elite Black Doctors, who don't care for the idea of Humanity's lock on advanced medical services being broken.
Review: Alan E. Nourse was more accurately Doctor Nourse, so when he casually pops off details of medical procedures in this book you can at least be assured there's a fair basis in fact (as known in 1959) behind them. Unfortunately he was never as prolific as James White, who's Sector General series is much better known. Which is a pity, because take in context, this book is a sort of sidewise commentary on the state of race relations and the medical profession around 1959 when it was published.
( And you thought arguments over Medicare got ugly )
Assuming, that is, he can overcome the prejudices of Earth's elite Black Doctors, who don't care for the idea of Humanity's lock on advanced medical services being broken.
Review: Alan E. Nourse was more accurately Doctor Nourse, so when he casually pops off details of medical procedures in this book you can at least be assured there's a fair basis in fact (as known in 1959) behind them. Unfortunately he was never as prolific as James White, who's Sector General series is much better known. Which is a pity, because take in context, this book is a sort of sidewise commentary on the state of race relations and the medical profession around 1959 when it was published.
( And you thought arguments over Medicare got ugly )
