“During his time here Lieutenant Carmody became very well liked and highly respected by all of the staff and long-term patients,” Braithwaite concluded, “and his position was not filled, until now.”
Feeling even more confused, Lioren said, “The relevance of what you say eludes me. I am neither old nor frail nor particularly gentle, I have been stripped of all Monitor Corps rank, and my arguments with
O’Mara are concerned only with the retention of patient confidences—”
“I know,” said Braithwaite, showing its teeth. “Your predecessor called it the Seal of Confession. And the rank doesn’t matter. Carmody never used his, and most of the people here did not even use his name. They just called him Padre.”
The Secret Visitor
(1957)
Second Ending
(1962)
Deadly Litter
(1964)
Escape Orbit
(1965)
The Watch Below
(1966)
All Judgement Fled
(1968)
The Aliens Among Us
(1969)
Tomorrow Is Too Far
(1971)
Dark Inferno
(1972)
The Dream Millennium
(1974)
Monsters and Medics
(1977)
Underkill
(1979)
Future Past
(1982)
Federation World
(1988)
The Silent Stars Go By
(1991)
The White Papers
(1996)
Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict—The First Protector
(Tor, 2000)
THE SECTOR GENERAL SERIES
Hospital Station
(1962)
Star Surgeon
(1963)
Major Operation
(1971)
Ambulance Ship
(1979)
Sector General
(1983)
Star Healer
(1985)
Code Blue—Emergency
(1987)
The Genocidal Healer
(1992)
The Galactic Gourmet
(Tor, 1996)
Final Diagnosis
(Tor, 1997)
Mind Changer
(Tor, 1998)
Double Contact
(Tor, 1999)
Beginning Operations
(Orb, 2001)
Alien Emergencies
(Orb, 2002)
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in these novels are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
GENERAL PRACTICE: A SECTOR GENERAL OMNIBUS
Copyright © 2003 by the Estate of James White. This book is an omnibus edition composed of the novels
Code Blue—Emergency
, copyright © 1987 by James White, and
The Genocidal Healer
, copyright © 1991 by James White.
Introduction Copyright © 2003 by John Clute
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
An Orb Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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eISBN 9781429965569
First eBook Edition : July 2011
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
White, James, 1928–1999
[Code blue-emergency]
General practice : a Sector General omnibus / James White.—1st Orb ed.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
Contents: Code blue-emergency—The genocidal healer.
1. Science fiction, English. 2. Human-alien encounters—
Fiction. 3. Life on other planets—Fiction. 4. Space medicine—
Fiction. 5. Hospitals—Fiction. I. White, James, 1928–1999.
Genocidal healer. I. Title.
PR6073.H494C63 2003
823’.914—dc21
2003040556
First Edition: May 2003