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Ice bound a doctor's incredible battle for survival at the South Pole

The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 degrees below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes and boats and the only connection with the rest of the world is satellite hook-up. During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via satellite e-mail with doctors in the U.S ...

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  • "The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 degrees below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes and boats and the only connection with the rest of the world is satellite hook-up. During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via satellite e-mail with doctors in the U.S ..."@en
  • "The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 degrees below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes and boats and the only connection with the rest of the world is satellite hook-up. During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via satellite e-mail with doctors in the U.S., she was forced to perform a biopsy and in June began to treat herself with chemotherapy, in order to insure that she could survive until conditions permitted her rescue in October. A daring rescue by the Air National Guard ensued, who landed, dropped off a replacement physician, and in less than five minutes took off with Dr. Nielsen. Set in one of the most remote and desolate yet strikingly beautiful landscapes on earth, Jerri Nielsen's narrative of her transforming experiences is a thrilling adventure of researchers and scientists embattled by a hostile environment, a chronicle of marvels - and limits - of modern medical technology, and a penetrating exploration of the dynamics of an isolated, intensely connected community faced with adversity."
  • "The dramatic story of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the lone doctor on a staff of 41 in the Antarctic, who discovered a lump in her breast. During the long winter of 1999, with conditions too treacherous for planes and boats, she was forced to perform her own biopsy and treat herself with chemotherapy until she could be rescued. After four months the hostile environment allowed finally allowed for a mission by the New York State Air National Guard dropped off a replacement physician and and in less than five minutes took off with Dr. Nielsen."
  • "The dramatic and inspiring true story of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the physician stranded at a South Pole research station whose amazing rescue in October 1999 made headlines around the globe."@en

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  • "Ice Bound: a doctor's incredible battle for survival at the south pole"
  • "Ice bound a doctor's incredible battle for survival at the South Pole"
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