A diverse group of doctors assigned to a mobile surgical team work to save the lives of troops stationed on a jungle planet during the Clone Wars. There is a Jedi padawan in the story, but the focus is on an ordinary human, Jos, who is the chief surgeon. Rounding things out are a Sullustan reporter with a drinking problem, an admiral with ties to the Black Sun crime organization, a Hutt stealing priceless drugs and a spy working for the Republic, the Separatists and Black Sun.