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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 27 th years old doc­tor removes his own appendix. Leonid Rogo­zov In his diary he explained the pain he suffered and the process of surgery took place. He stated that he was suffered a lot due to the appendix problems which hurt him like the devil. All the avail­able con­ser­v­a­tive treat­ment was applied (antibi­otics, local cool­ing), but the gen­eral con­di­tion was get­ting worse.And so the prepa­ra­tions for the surgery began. In his diary  he describes these events in  plain, almost emo­tion­less lan­guage: how the guys found out, how he told them what was about to hap­pen, what they were to do. Fol­low­ing Dr Rogozov’z instruc­tions, the team mem­ber...