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TIL about Leonid Ivanovich Rogozo. He was the only medical staffer stationed at the Novolazarevskaya Station(Soviet Antarctic Expedition). While there, he developed appendicitis, which meant he had to perform an appendectomy on himself in a case of self-surgery.

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