Excerpts from the Book 'Bedside Manner':

... silence was so complete that it was frightening. Not a whisper of sound reached her. She had been on a spaceship, but none of a ship's noises ...
... this time a questioning one: Why, if she could feel pain in her arms and legs, could she not move them. What strange form of paralysis was this. She ...
... had been no other ship near them. Who had kept her from dying. Who had taken her crushed body and stopped the flow of blood and tended her wounds and ...
... saying that to make her feel better, the way doctors did. He was saying it to give her courage, keep her morale up, make her feel that it was worth ...
... their patients ended up alive and helpless, their bodies scarred, their organs functioning feebly and imperfectly. Would he turn her into something ...
... Merely incomplete.. My husband wouldn't think so.. I do not know what your husband would think. Perhaps he is not used to seeing incomplete ...
... you can grow new arms and legs and eyes, she said, you must be thousands of years ahead of us.. We can do many other things, of which there ...
... her as if she were crazy. Suddenly she was glad that she had no eyes to see his bewilderment. And his contempt, which, she was sure, must be there too. He ...
... yours. At first I couldn't think who was speaking to me.. It's strange it took us so long to realize that our voices would be different.. She ...
... what sort of appearance we made. You have-had-a good eye. Maybe you could describe us-. Be reasonable, Margaret. You ought to know that you ...
... know it's asking an awful lot, but without it, all the rest he has done for me won't count. Better to be dead than be different from what I was. But ...
... it's the difference between life and death.. He said in exasperation, You are a race of children. But sometimes even a child must be humored. I shall ...
... ship again-. Out of the question, as I told you. However, it will not be necessary. He paused, as if savoring what he had to tell her. I checked ...
... said slowly, I had better talk about that with my husband. Can you have him brought in here, Doctor.. Of course.. She lay there, thinking. ...
... have got over it. Anyway, Fred, is there any one of them you liked particularly.. He became wary, she thought. His voice was expressionless as he ...
... are needed. I have only done my work.. What will you do with us now.. There is an old freighter of your people which we have found abandoned ...
... her eyes flashed open, and she saw that she was lying in a bunk, strapped down to keep from being thrown out. Unsteadily, she began to loosen the straps. ...
... few steps forward and then back. Yes, he had done well by her. It was a graceful body, and it felt fine. Better than new. But her face. She whirled ...
... said uncertainly, Fred, dear, I'm sorry.. For what. For his giving you more than you bargained for-and me less. It's all in the family.. You ...
... their play together, and then you have the fight between Oberon,the king of the faires, and Titania, the fairy queen.William Shakespeare : All Well That ...