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Incredible: Meet the Russian doctor who removed his own appendix in Antarctica

New Delhi: There are many doctors across the world who have big achievements to their credit. But this Russian doctor performed a self surgery while on expedition in 1961. Meet this surgeon Leonid Rogozov who



He knew that if he was to survive he had to undergo an operation. But he was in the frontier conditions of a newly founded Antarctic colony on the brink of the polar night. Transportation was impossible. 



Flying was out of the question, because of the snowstorms. And there was one further problem: he was the only physician on the base.





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