garfaagel@sh.itjust.works 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.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up13arrow-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.comgarfaagel@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 year agomessage-square1fedilinkfile-text
Bonus: Nowadays Australian doctors staying over the winter must remove their appendix preemptively, in order to avoid similar situations.
minus-squarewatson387@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s a man right there I tell you what…
