The Coldest Cut: Surgery at the End of the World

from Dr. Terry Simpson - The Unfiltered MD · host Dr. Terry Simpson

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.drsimpson.comIn 1961, a 27-year-old Soviet physician found himself stranded at an Antarctic research station with a ticking time bomb in his gut: acute appendicitis. With no hospital, no evacuation route, and no fellow doctors, Leonid Rogozov did the unthinkable — he removed his own appendix.This is the unfiltered story of one of the most astonishing moments in surg…

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