Star Surgeon

The novel is quite often mentioned as a ‘classic medicine sf', so finding it in the Storytel catalogue I decided to give it a try. As with many classics the age shows. The story itself is a standard ‘overcoming the prejudice' motive – Earth had already eliminated wars and racism (and I had to remind myself several times that black doctor has nothing to do with said doctor's skin, and everything with his uniform), but prejudice against non-humans does occur giving the story a start.
What bothers me is a total lack of women. I know, it is quite a standard in the classic sf, but in the medicine context it is much more noticeable. But if Nourse would have included a nurse (or two! or more!) on the General Practice Patrol ship he would probably had to describe some female/male interactions... The Horror! To avoid it the 3 poor straight-out-of-the-school doctors have to fend for themselves...
I even did a quick search in the Gutenberg version of the novel: there are exactly two occurences of the pronoun ‘she', and the 'she' in question is a spaceship.