 What is not true about the surgeon's job?
Food, on the other hand, is a challenge shipmen face three times a day, so central to their thoughts that a history of sea-faring can be read from a commissary list. Long before I was a boy in Med School, itching to look at black sky through a view-port, galley science had fulfilled the disgusting exordium of Isaiah 36:12, to feed the Slimeheads for breakfast today what was day-before-yesterday's table-scraps and jakes-water. Cooking aboard a spacer is a job combining the more frustrating tensions of biochemistry, applied mycology, high-speed farming, dietetics and sewage engineering. Though I'm signed aboard as Ship's Surgeon, I seldom lift a knife in space.
 He's the person to file grievances with when there are interpersonal issues
 He takes care of the mental health and morale of the crew  He has to know when to offer alcohol as the appropriate remedy for a situation  He is a sounding-board for those who need to complain  He's the person to file grievances with when there are interpersonal issues