Star Surgeon

DAVID McKAY COMPANY, Inc. NEW YORK
Copyright © 1959, 1960 by Alan E. Nourse
All rights reserved
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NO. 60-7199
Manufactured in the United States of America VAN REES PRESS · NEW YORK
Typography by Charles M. Todd
Sixth Printing, April 1973
Part of this book was published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories
Transcriber's note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.

The shuttle plane from the port of Philadelphia to Hospital Seattle had already gone when Dal Timgar arrived at the loading platform, even though he had taken great pains to be at least thirty minutes early for the boarding.
You'll just have to wait for the next one, the clerk at the dispatcher's desk told him unsympathetically. There's nothing else you can do.