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The single most badass photo ever. Dr. Leonid Rogozov performing his own appendectomy
This is even more badass than it looks. This happened in 1961, while Dr. Rogozov was the only doctor on an Antarctic Expedition. When he got ill the nearest Russian station was more than 1000 km away and nearby foreign stations had no aircraft.
Even then it wouldn’t have mattered because he did this in a fucking blizzard, with a local anaesthetic while he had a driver and a meteorologist hand him crap and hold a mirror. It took him two hours, with breaks because of “general weakness.”
He was back working 2 weeks after he did this. Legend.
