This is the seventh dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who is in Antarctica investigating the effect of climate change on Thwaites Glacier.
Antarctica, a vast kingdom of ice at the end of the world, is not a place where you want to have a medical emergency. In the 1960s, a Russian doctor who was wintering at a remote research station diagnosed himself with acute appendicitis. He faced a choice: remove it himself or die. He removed it himself. In 1999, Jerri Nielsen, a physician who was winter-bound in a different Antarctic research station,...
Antarctica, a vast kingdom of ice at the end of the world, is not a place where you want to have a medical emergency. In the 1960s, a Russian doctor who was wintering at a remote research station diagnosed himself with acute appendicitis. He faced a choice: remove it himself or die. He removed it himself. In 1999, Jerri Nielsen, a physician who was winter-bound in a different Antarctic research station,...
- 2/22/2019
- by Jeff Goodell
- Rollingstone.com
A brave doctor who was portrayed on screen by Susan Sarandon has died, aged 57.
Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer when she was the only physician at a South Pole research station in the late 1990s - and wrote about the ordeal in Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole.
The book was turned into a 2003 TV movie, starring Sarandon.
FitzGerald died at her home in Massachusetts on Tuesday after her cancer returned in 2005.
Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer when she was the only physician at a South Pole research station in the late 1990s - and wrote about the ordeal in Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole.
The book was turned into a 2003 TV movie, starring Sarandon.
FitzGerald died at her home in Massachusetts on Tuesday after her cancer returned in 2005.
- 6/25/2009
- WENN
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