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Final Diagnosis

James White

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'Wonderful... suspenseful, imaginative and humanistic with a wry humour. Highly recommended' Starlog

Sector General is a massive hospital station on the galactic rim, with thousands of staff, where alien and human medicine meets. But Patient Hewlitt doesn't want to meet any kind of alien medicine, doctors or nurses - or aliens of any kind. Which is too bad, as his case is of particular interest to the medical team.

In the meantime, at Sector General it has always been assumed that infections can't pass between species - but now it looks like they have their first interstellar virus on their hands...

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Praise for Final Diagnosis

  • Wonderful... suspenseful, imaginative and humanistic with a wry humour. Highly recommended - StarlogMarvellously entertaining, and the clever medical mystery that underlies everything is nicely done as well. One of the best entries in this popular and inventive series - Science Fiction ChronicleSector General is one of the few places in SF that one would really, really like to existOld fans of Sector General will be delighted by this new episode. So will series newcomers - BooklistA fascinating character study whose on-target delineation of the "us" vs. "them" mentality is particularly relevant to out diverse world today; highly recommended - Library Journal

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