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  • It was a standard drugstore autodoc, a thing like a giant coffin with walls a foot thick and a headboard covered with dials and red and green lights.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Louis Wu awakes after spending several months recovering in an autodoc to discover he has become an unwitting tool of the Protector Tunesmith.

    Review - Ringworld's Children 2004

  • Then he set her on a great round bed, pillows offering themselves to her head while a small autodoc spider-walked its way across the pale blue sheets, studying her half-healed wound, then with more penetrating eyes, carefully examining the rest of her body.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Louis Wu awakes after spending several months recovering in an autodoc to discover he has become an unwitting tool of the Protector Tunesmith.

    July 2004 2004

  • Louis Wu emerges from the autodoc, nicely repaired after his last adventure, and finds Tunesmith, the ghoul protector (the perfect sort, really, for to protect his bloodline, a ghoul must protect the food supply), busily repairing damage to the puppeteer Hindmost's ship, studying how hyperdrives and nanotech work, and hunting for a solution to the Fringe War problem.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Meanwhile, everybody in the company knows the captain's not acting like himself, but he won't let the autodoc check him out, and the major's not interested in helping him.

    Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001

  • The autodoc scanned her, displayed a diagnosis of muscle spasm, and dispensed a bottle of pills that stopped the pain well enough for her to sit at a desk and work; but it was obvious she was in no shape to head a team into rough country.

    Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001

  • Her back injury was healing nicely, thanks to the pills she'd gotten from the autodoc, but even cutting-edge military medicine wasn't going to do much to speed up the process.

    Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001

  • The black coffin -- "Your autodoc, you said you could set it to treat a Kzin?"

    The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

  • The Hindmost glanced at readouts in the autodoc lid, touched something, and danced back as the lid lifted.

    The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

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