"James White - SG 10 - The Final Diagnosis" - читать интересную книгу автора (White James)

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want to be treated by people of my own species.тАЭ

"There are many Earth-human DBDGs on the medical staff," the nurse replied,
"but they might not want to treat you.тАЭ

For a moment surprise and disbelief rendered him speechless, and not until his
litter swung into a narrower and less populated corridor did the nurse answer the
question that he had been too angry to ask

"You are forgetting that this is a multispecies hospital," it said, "and recognized
throughout the Galactic Federation 'to be the biggest and best of its kind. The
people who are accepted for positions or advanced training here are selected from
the best that their home planets' medical establishments can provide, and their
purpose in coming here is to practice other-species medicine and surgery. So you
will understand that one of them would not take your case unless specifically
ordered to do so for a particular clinical reason. A DBDG Earth-human doctor
would not feel that it had come all the way to Sector General just to treat another
Earth-human when there are countless millions of those on Earth and the Earth-
seeded worlds

"Your Earth-human doctors and nurses want to work on the juicy ET cases," it
went on. "You will come to understand that this is a very good thing, because
much more care and attention, as well as a higher degree of personal and
professional interest, is given to other-species patients. When a same-species
doctor is treating its patient, certain clinical shortcuts may sometimes be taken, or
incorrect assumptions made, or important symptoms cloaked by over-familiarity
with the patient's physiology. The occasions when mistakes like this occur are
rare. But when an other-species medic is in charge of treatment, it takes nothing
about its patient for granted. It is forced by the physiological differences to be very
careful indeed, so that the incidence of clinical error is even rarer. Please believe
me: you will be in very good hands, or whatever other appendages are appropriate

"And remember, Patient Hewlitt," it added as the litter made another sudden
change in direction, into a wide doorway,."to me, you are an ET caseтАФwith all

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that that implies. We've arrived.тАЭ

Ward Seven was a large, brightly lit room about five times longer than it was
wide, Hewlitt saw, with a clear area of floor running between two facing rows of
beds. He felt pretty sure that they were beds because, in spite of their weird shapes
and sizes and the strange equipment hanging above some of them, there was one at