disfigured-humanity: a young Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov, stranded in Antarctica with the Six
disfigured-humanity: a young Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov, stranded in Antarctica with the Sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition, in 1961 performs a self-operation: under local anesthesia, surrounded by a bunch of guys whose only experience with medicine was sitting in a dentist’s chair, the 27th years old doctor removes his own appendix. -- source link