Med Ship Man
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Simon + Schuster LLC
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ePUB
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Ja
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Erscheinungsdatum
03.03.2016
Verlag
Simon + Schuster LLCSeitenzahl
44 (Printausgabe)
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2138 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781681465302
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NASA Astronauts Space Station Evacuation - the first emergency crew return in a quarter century of ISS operations - put a sharp spotlight on what happens when a medical crisis strikes far from any hospital. Murray Leinster explored that same tension decades earlier in pulp science fiction form.
In Med Ship Man, a lone med ship doctor arrives at a silent, seemingly dead planet, his taped approach-call looping unanswered for the twentieth time. He's a last-minute replacement, thrust into an unfamiliar sector because his predecessor got married and washed out of solo duty.
Now he faces repeating distress signals, no ground contact, and the full weight of being the only medical officer within light-years. Leinster keeps the story tight and procedural: unknown planetary hazards, failing communications, and the pressure of diagnosing problems with no backup and no easy return.
The novella works as an early, compact look at emergency medical responsibility under isolation - how a single caregiver triages, improvises, and decides when every protocol assumes resources he doesn't have.
It's vintage pulp-era science fiction rather than a modern memoir or technical account, but its core scenario - a medical professional confronting crisis in deep space with limited options and no cavalry - still reads with real urgency.
In Med Ship Man, a lone med ship doctor arrives at a silent, seemingly dead planet, his taped approach-call looping unanswered for the twentieth time. He's a last-minute replacement, thrust into an unfamiliar sector because his predecessor got married and washed out of solo duty.
Now he faces repeating distress signals, no ground contact, and the full weight of being the only medical officer within light-years. Leinster keeps the story tight and procedural: unknown planetary hazards, failing communications, and the pressure of diagnosing problems with no backup and no easy return.
The novella works as an early, compact look at emergency medical responsibility under isolation - how a single caregiver triages, improvises, and decides when every protocol assumes resources he doesn't have.
It's vintage pulp-era science fiction rather than a modern memoir or technical account, but its core scenario - a medical professional confronting crisis in deep space with limited options and no cavalry - still reads with real urgency.
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