Man Performs Appendectomy on Himself
January 20, 2010 at 11:50 AM Leave a comment
Here is a fascinating account of a 27-year-old Russian doctor who was stationed in the Antarctic in 1961 and who suddenly needed an appendectomy. Insofar as he was the only doctor at the base, he had to perform the operation on himself.
Amazing.
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