Antarctic surgeon-hero

This amazing story happened in the distant 1961. Young doctor Leonid Rogozov was part of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition. April 30, fate played a trick on him, he felt a sharp pain in the lower abdominal area is accompanied by a high fever. Diagnosis, he put himself, as he was the only doctor at the station - appendicitis. I had to make an immediate operation in which the surgeon was very patient! Leonid Rogozov while under local anesthesia removed his appendix, he helped engineer and meteorologist station that served him medical instruments and sent a small mirror in his stomach, the operation lasting 1 hour 45 minutes was over. A few days later Leonid was absolutely healthy ...






In St. Petersburg, in the Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic is an exhibition with surgical instruments, the ones with which Leonid Rogozov made his operation ...



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