Welcome to Sector General

Sector General is a hospital in space, to treat all life forms in the Galaxy. The hospital is run by medics from over 70 different species. To allow these doctors (some of the best on their home worlds) to treat all races that arrive at Sector General they use "tapes" to give them the required knowledge. These tapes are recordings of the minds of the greatest physician from each species, as a result their personality is also recorded as well as their knowledge. This means that the doctors undergo voluntary schizophrenia. This is even worse for the Diagnostians who retain for long periods of time up to 10 tapes at a time.

The hospital treats many wierd creatures, from levitating Dinosaurs, to intelligent cabbages. As the majorty of them discribe themselves as human in their own language a system of clincal identification has to be used. This uses a combination of four letters.

  1. The first letter represents the level of physical evoloution
  2. The second denotes the type and distrobution of limbs, sense organs and body orifices
  3. the remaining two letters refer to the combination of metabolism, food and air requirements, associated with the home planets gravity and atmospheric pressure.
Species with the prefixes:
The higher categories include radiation eaters, cold-blooded or crystalline beings and entities capable of altering their physical structures at will. Whilst those with extrasensory powers powerful to make ambulatory or manipulatory appendages unnecessary are in group V.

As an example, an Earth Human is classified as DBLF.
There are some anomalies, for example the AACP have a vegetable Metabolism, but are fitted into the same category as piscatorial life.

Sector General is the creation of the author James White and is the location for his hero, Doctor Conway (a DBLF), to have most of his adventures. 

[C] == Story Collection.
[= ...] == Also known by this other title.

White, James	(U.K., 4/7/1928- )	G
        	(award: Da vis 1989)

Series
	The Sector General Series
		Hospital Station (1962) [C]
		Star Surgeon (1963)
		Major Operation (1971) [C]
		Ambulance Ship (1979) [rev. 1980]
		Sector General (1983) [C]
		Star Healer (1985)
		Code Blue - Emergency! (1987)		
		The Genocidal Healer (1992)
For some reason the last two Books are hard to get in this country (for me anyway.)

Most of the books below can only be found by hunting through Second hand shops 


The Aliens Among Us (1969) [C]
All Judgment Fled (1968)
Dark Inferno (1972) [= Lifeboat]
Deadly Litter (1964) [C]
The Dream Millennium (1974)
The Escape Orbit (1965) [= Open Prison]
Federation World (1988)
Futures Past (1982) [rev. 1988] [C] [inc. 1 Sector General story]
The Interpreter (1985) [CB]
Monsters and Medics (1977) [C] [inc. Second Ending]
Second Ending (1962)
The Secret Visitors (1957)
The Silent Stars Go By (1991)
Tomorrow is Too Far (1971)
Underkill (1979)
The Watch Below (1966)

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