“I grow weaker and weaker, my head starts to spin. Every four to five minutes I rest for 20 - 25 seconds.”
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Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov was a Russian general practitioner and surgeon who took part in the Sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition at Novolazarevskaya Station from September 1960 to October 1962. He is best known for performing a surgery to remove his own appendix—an auto-appendectomy—after he began suffering from appendicitis while deployed there in April 1961. The incident, which occurred because Ro…
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science · Russian doctor who performed an auto-appendectomy (1934–2000) · physician · surgeon · university teacher · also Leonid Rogozov, Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov, Леони́д Ива́нович Ро́гозов, Rogozov
Born 14 March 1934 · Died 21 September 2000 · Q2543762
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“I grow weaker and weaker, my head starts to spin. Every four to five minutes I rest for 20 - 25 seconds.”
“I was scared too. But when I picked up the needle with the novocaine and gave myself the first injection, somehow I automatically switched into operating mode, and from that point on I didn”
Died 2000-09-21.
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Aged 66, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from lung cancer
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Was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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As a general practitioner, he started clinical training to specialise in surgery
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Studied at Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University (1959).
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Rogozov completed his studies at a secondary school in Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, and was admitted to the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute (now Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University)
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Born 1934-03-14.
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