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    Bedside Manner
    Bedside Manner
    Bedside Manner
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    Bedside Manner

    By Joseph Samachson and Vidmer

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Bedside Manner - Joseph Samachson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bedside Manner, by William Morrison

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Bedside Manner

      Author: William Morrison

      Illustrator: VIDMER

      Release Date: June 17, 2010 [EBook #32864]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEDSIDE MANNER ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      BEDSIDE MANNER

      By WILLIAM MORRISON

      Illustrated by VIDMER

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction May 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Broken, helpless, she had to trust an alien doctor to give her back her body and mind—a doctor who had never seen a human before!

      She awoke, and didn't even wonder where she was.

      First there were feelings—a feeling of existence, a sense of still being alive when she should be dead, an awareness of pain that made her body its playground.

      After that, there came a thought. It was a simple thought, and her mind blurted it out before she could stop it: Oh, God, now I won't even be plain any more. I'll be ugly.

      The thought sent a wave of panic coursing through her, but she was too tired to experience any emotion for long, and she soon drowsed off.

      Later, the second time she awoke, she wondered where she was.

      There was no way of telling. Around her all was black and quiet. The blackness was solid, the quiet absolute. She was aware of pain again—not sharp pain this time, but dull, spread throughout her body. Her legs ached; so did her arms. She tried to lift them, and found to her surprise that they did not respond. She tried to flex her fingers, and failed.

      She was paralyzed. She could not move a muscle of her body.

      The 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 came to her now. Not the creak of an expanding joint, nor the occasional slap of metal on metal. Not the sound of Fred's voice, nor even the slow rhythm of her own breathing.

      It took her a full minute to figure out why, and when she had done so she did not believe it. But the thought persisted, and soon she knew that it was true.

      The silence was complete because she was deaf.

      Another thought: The blackness was so deep because she

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