Sector 12 General Hospital had a staff of thousands divided among 60 or so intelligence species. Every day it treated alien illnesses of baffling complexity. Of all the hospitals very capable staff senior physician conway, the human doctor in charge of the ambulance ship Rhabwar was thought by many to be the most promising. So when he was replaced without notice by the bird like alien Prilicia, Dr Conway was surprised, to say the least. But that was nothing compared to his shock when he was offered a promotion to a challenge in new position. It was is for the taken. If he had the nerve.