BEDSIDE MANNER
By WILLIAM MORRISON
Illustrated by VIDMER
[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction May 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Broken, helpless, she had to trust an alien doctor to give her back her body and mind—a doctor who had never seen a human before!
She awoke, and didn't even wonder where she was.
First there were feelings—a feeling of existence, a sense of still being alive when she should be dead, an awareness of pain that made her body its playground.
After that, there came a thought. It was a simple thought, and her mind blurted it out before she could stop it: Oh, God, now I won't even be plain any more. I'll be ugly.