Second book in the Kindle omnibus "Alien Emergencies". The first section is a flash back to how the hospital came to be founded but the rest of the book continues with Dr. Conway on the Rhabwar (the ambulance ship introduced in the previous book of the omnibus). ( )

Anthology of four stories and all of them very very good. The first story is a continuation of a story in an earlier book in the series. The first story was of a war memorial which was a stasis cube that had been copied for two hundred years as a warning about war. A human and an alien dying together. After 200 years of peace and the Federation growing and medical science improving, the stasis was removed and the injured heroes healed. This story is what they did with their lives after revival and it turns out they were responsible for the decision to build Sector General...what a neat connection. The other stories were equally interesting and engaging.

Anthology of four stories and all of them very very good. The first story is a continuation of a story in an earlier book in the series. The first story was of a war memorial which was a stasis cube that had been copied for two hundred years as a warning about war. A human and an alien dying together. After 200 years of peace and the Federation growing and medical science improving, the stasis was removed and the injured heroes healed. This story is what they did with their lives after revival and it turns out they were responsible for the decision to build Sector General...what a neat connection. The other stories were equally interesting and engaging. ( )

Even though this is from 1983, if you want to give someone an example of Golden Age SF, this would work just fine. This is classic SF with a hard S about as good as it gets. The first story, Accident, is the weakest of the lot, but things pick up with Survivor, and my favorite is Investigation, if only because it sets up the puzzle and solution more briefly and clearly than the final story, Combined Operation. Forget characterization. There's just one plot: "what the heck is this thing and how do we cure it (assuming it's actually hurt)?" To my mind, this is a far richer vein than military SF or technological puzzles. Pure SF is about science, and medicine turns out to be a great place to do science with a heart. ( )