Space Doctor
by Lee Correy
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Lee Correy (pseudonym for scientist/engineer G. Harry Stine) has written an interesting novel about the woes of practicing medicine on a space station. Dr. Tom Noels had to set up a clinicl and treat the workers building a space station in geosynchronous orbit. His job was to treat the injuries that occurred during construction and try to keep the fatalities to a minimum to avoid the project being shut down. There were no text books for practicing medicine in zero G so he was in virgin territory and had to invent treatments and procedures as they occurred. As a physician, I found the book fascinating because simple procedures like starting an IV and running IV fluids have to be recreated in zero gravity.
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G. Harry Stine was born March 26, 1928. He graduated with a degree in physics from Colorado College. He worked as a civilian scientist at White Sands Proving Grounds and then at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility as head of the Range Operations Division from 1955-1957. He was a founder of the American Model Rocketry Association and many show more of his pioneering rockets are displayed in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. He wrote science fiction using the pseudonym Lee Correy. His works included Starship Through Space, Rocket Man, Contraband Rocket, Shuttle Down, Space Doctor, Manna, A Matter of Metalaw, and in the Star Trek series The Abode of Life. Writing under G. Harry Stine, his works included Warbots, Judgment Day, and Starsea Invaders: First Action. He died of a stroke on November 2, 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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