There was a lot of talk about the vital importance of his new assignment, but it still seemed like a demotion to senior physician conway. After 12 years of outstanded service, and the most incredible experiences imaginable, he couldn't quite appreciate the honor of becoming an ambulance attendant at the stage of his new life. True, the insectile empath, doctor prilicia, would be with him, and so would the eminently desirable nurse Richardson, but it was definitely a come down for a senior position of his status to be conscripted as part of a first aid team for disabled space affairs. Then the first call came, and conway faced the problem of treating a spaceship crews mysterious ailment, without wiping out every patient and doctor in sector general