Continuing the Chronicles of Sector General.

Born on a planet of a distant star, Dal Timgar is the first alien to attempt to become a qualified physician of Hospital Earth.

Earth is poised on the brink of becoming a full member of the Galactic Federation. Of all the races so far encountered Earth's humans have the best skills in medicine, and Earth has become the sole provider of medical services to the galaxy at large, contracting out their services to a multiplicity of species. Dal Timgar is the first non-human to be accepted by Hospital Earth as a student. His ambition is to become a surgeon. As a Garvian and the first non-human to study medicine on Hospital Earth, he must face enormous adversity from classmates, professors, and some of the highest ranking physicians on all of Earth. Will his efforts be enough to earn him the Silver Star of a Star Surgeon?

Star Surgeon is the second in White's immensely popular series about "Sector General," a mercy station in deep space, where beings of all shapes, sizes, and environments are brought in great distress, and a cast of surgeons must struggle to save them despite their great disparities in size, atmosphere, nutrition, and reproduction.