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Doctor who treated herself at South Pole describes ordeal
An amazing story about a doctor who diagnosed and treated herself for breast cancer while stationed at the South Pole:
After diagnosing herself with breast cancer, "I thought I might die before I got off this place," she said.With the help of a welder and a maintenance man, Nielsen performed her own biopsy, e-mailing photographs of slide samples of the tumor to doctors in the United States.
After an airdrop of medical equipment and supplies, she administered chemotherapy to herself. She even had the maintenance man and welder counting the individual drops of her IV, not wanting to deliver the medicine too quickly or slowly.
Posted by tim at May 5, 2005 5:00 AM
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