Med Ship Man (version 2)

Calhoun is the Interstellar Medical Service's most valuable, and most unorthodox, asset. When a plague sweeps across a colony world or a mysterious sickness wipes out thousands, the Med Ship arrives with Calhoun at the helm and Murgatroyd at his side: a tiny, invaluable creature whose species possesses the most formidable immune system in the galaxy. Together, they diagnose what others cannot, but Calhoun has learned a hard truth in his years of service: the disease is rarely the real enemy. Human panic, institutional inertia, and prejudice often pose a greater threat than any pathogen. The cure requires not just science, but cunning, manipulation, and a willingness to bend rules that were never designed for crises of this magnitude. This is space medicine at its most inventive, paired with a sharp, often darkly funny portrait of how people respond when the unknown arrives on their world. Calhoun will do whatever it takes to save lives, even when that means outwitting the very people he's trying to help.