Med Ship Man by Murray Leinster

His work was healing the sick-but this planet was already dead!
Join Space Medical Service officer Calhoun and his sidekick Murgatroyd the tormal on another exciting adventure, this time on what should be a routine visit to the planet Maya, which upon arrival appears to be completely devoid of all life!
Med Ship Man was first published in Galaxy Magazine October 1963.
Total Running Time (TRT): 1 hour, 35 min.
Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.