On Aug 8, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

> And with specific regard to the SG books, per the OP's question, that's a setting where sentient life is so ubiquitous and varied that they need an equally complex classification system, and no doctor can possibly know them all.  In Traveller, a doctor has to know how to treat a dozen species, *tops* - more commonly, only two or three.  That's well within the bounds of personal knowledge and reference materials.

So…veterinarians, then :-)

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