Sunday, April 18, 2010
Surgeon Removes His Own Appendix
You gotta love the British Medical Journal for their report of a surgeon in a remote area of the Antarctic who did emergency surgery on himself. Russian Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov was the only doctor on an expedition ship whose mission was to build a new Antarctic polar base island in 1961. The sea had frozen over and the 12 explorers were alone at the base when the 27 year old team doctor