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Posts: 10557 | Location: North Groton, NH | Registered: 21 April 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Read about this before. So hard to fathom.

I love this:

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In later years Rogozov himself rejected all glorification of his deed. When thoughts like these were put to him, he usually answered with a smile and the words: “A job like any other, a life like any other”.


What a Soviet thing to say!


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That's a fascinating (if sometimes a bit gruesome) site.

The cosmonaut who fell to earth: https://rarehistoricalphotos.c...man-fell-space-1967/


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Have read of solo sailors about to sail around the world having their appendix removed before leaving.
But they got a doctor to do the work.


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Remember the MD-explorer who learned she had breast cancer while on an expedition to the South Pole?

She self-diagnosed it via a DIY biopsy after palpation pointed to the tumor, after which she treated herself with chemo dropped from a plane per doctors with whom she was in touch.

She survived for ten years after this occurrence and treatment after which she perished from a brain metastasis.

Forgetting too many of the details, I'll search for a link - if so, you'll find it below.

Amazing what medical feats people can perform on themselves when the motivation is strong enough - that, and their training.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...e-cancer-doctor-dies

PS I see she treated herself with emergency dental care too - and without dental training!


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