This general practitioner, Leonid Rogozov, had interrupted his training to become a surgeon in order to join the Sixth Soviet ...

‘It seems that I have appendicitis,’ wrote Dr Leonid Rogozov in his diary on April 29, 1961. It was a fairly matter-of-fact description from the 27-year-old Russian surgeon, but what he did a few days ...

During an expedition to the Antarctic, Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov became seriously ill. He needed an operation - and as the only doctor on the team, he realised he would have to do it himself. As ...

In April 1961, deep in the frozen isolation of Antarctica, a young Soviet doctor faced a nightmare scenario. He was the only ...

This is how Leonid Rogozov described the sensation of removing his own appendix in a diary entry written after his extraordinary feat. The Russian surgeon was forced to operate on himself during an ...

If you think House and the guy who James Franco played in 127 Hours are tough, you haven’t heard of Leonid Rogozov. In 1961, Rogozov was stationed at a newly constructed Russian base in Antarctica.

During an expedition to the Antarctic, Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov became seriously ill. He needed an operation - and as the only doctor on the team, he realised he would have to do it himself. As ...