Ballantine Books, New York

Fix-up novel: 'Resident Physician' (see under Short Stories) and Field Hospital.  The blurbster has it: "Sector General is a mercy station -- a place where all kinds from all worlds are welcome.  But for the first time, the hospital is threatened by creatures too different its purpose, and so powerful that they can cause utter havoc!"  The Etlan DBDG invaders take much the same attitude towards Sector Twelve General Hospital that Margaret Thatcher did to the British National Health Service.  And, to paraphrase Chief Psychologist O'Mara, Dr Conway not only stops the war b

The first of twelve books in the Sector General series. This vast sectionalized hospital in space is staffed by almost every species in the galaxy.

"The story of Sector General is told in a series of related, but not connected, episodes, each having to do with the particular problems of one alien creature... while O'Mara, the all-too-human head of a circus with as many rings as it has performers, is surely the most unusual space commander yet conceived -- a far cry from the jut-jawed heroic idiot of conventional space opera" (blurb).