@[email protected] to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 1 year agoTIL that in 1961, the only doctor at a Soviet research station in Antarctica got appendicitis, and had to performed surgery on himself to remove his appendix. Two weeks later he resumed regular dutieswww.bbc.commessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up177arrow-down1external-linkTIL that in 1961, the only doctor at a Soviet research station in Antarctica got appendicitis, and had to performed surgery on himself to remove his appendix. Two weeks later he resumed regular dutieswww.bbc.com@[email protected] to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 1 year agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
Bonus: Nowadays Australian doctors staying over the winter must remove their appendix preemptively, in order to avoid similar situations.
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