Mind Changer

Definitely not to be confused with The Young Doctors (1963 Corgi retitling of Arthur Hailey's The Final Diagnosis). Although Dr. (Peter) Conway started 'life' as an unaging character à la Dr. (James) Kildare, who might have been spontaneously generated for each book, he finally began to act his chronological age - well, most of the time. The same thing could be said about my favourite Sector General staff member, Chief Psychologist O'Mara, who helped build the place around Diagnostician Mannen. Now the old warhorse faces mandatory turning out to pasture, if not the interstellar glue factory, and he's not particularly well-pleased at the prospect. Does the ultimate 'mind-changer' go gently into that good senior-citizen night? No siree, Dr. Bob! "Seconds out..."