Usually this happens in extreme conditions.10 cases of people, mainly "captive doctors" had to handle themselves.
1. Jerry Nielsen
Jerry Lin Nielsen was the only doctor at the US Antarctic station "Amundsen-Scott" in 1999.There, for a few months cut off from civilization, the doctor and found at the symptoms of breast cancer.Independently biopsy confirmed the diagnosis.And before there was an opportunity to get out of the snow retreats, the doctor took a course of biochemistry.Yourself, of course.
2. Amanda Fielding
Bohemian artist could not find a doctor who would agree to do it craniotomy.Doctors do not agree that the only way she would be able to achieve spiritual enlightenment.Official medicine mystical views Amanda does not share, so this risky surgery she decided to do it yourself.To do this, she needed a drill operated by a foot pedal, and sunglasses.The blood in the eye does not get.
3. Deborah Samson
This American made, what in Russia a few decades after the famous "trooper-girl" Durov.During the American Revolutionary War she changed man and bravely fought in the Continental Army.Was wounded in battle and fear of exposure, self-carved deeply entrenched musket bullet.
4. Evan O'Neill
surgeon O'Neill put out half a lifetime to prove that for many small operations do not need a general anesthetic.Among these he included, such as appendicitis and inguinal hernia.Himself he operated on that, and on the other, and with inguinal hernia versed in the ripe old age - seventy years.However, it is worth noting that in each operation, helped him a staff of assistants.
5. John Leteysky
about this man we know from the book of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp Dutch, who lived in the XVII century and was the mayor of Amsterdam.John Smith removed his own Leteysky stone from the bladder.Without medical care, however, not done: to sew the incision blacksmith had to invite physicians.
6. Samson Parker
In 2007, a farmer from the state of Carolina worked for harvesting corn.And so badly turned during repair his fingers stuck in the mechanism of the harvesting machine.Next on the field was empty, so no one would come, had only to die of thirst.And the choice that made Parker was just as awful and as obvious.He carefully cut each finger, and then in one motion they broke.
7. Leonid Rogozov
Our compatriots, who dedicated his song Vysotsky.A young doctor in the Antarctic expedition himself cut out appendicitis.Then he remembered that the most difficult thing was not to lose consciousness from the weakness caused by the loss of blood.Rogozov died recently due to the effects of cancer.In St. Petersburg Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic, and now you can see the tools with which he himself operated.
8. Douglas Goodale
35-year-old fisherman, gone to check on lobster traps, caught in a storm.The wave threw him into the open sea, and during the fall of limbs entangled in the ropes.Douglas found himself hanging on the ropes over the side to the same arm knocked out of the joint.To get back on board, it had to be cut.Doctors on the ground suggested that blood loss from Douglas died only because of the cold weather.
9. Aron Ralston
This person filmed, both artistic and documentary (the most famous of them - the recent drama "127 hours").American mountaineer was forced to amputate his own arm after it got caught huge boulder brush.After that, he still was able to get out of the desert, far from civilization areas.Interestingly, Ralston and still did not give up climbing.Now he conquers mountains with a prosthesis.
10. Ines Ramirez
This Mexican is today considered the only woman who was able to successfully carry out itself cesarean section.The choice she had.When did the problem birth, she was alone, and the phone at hand was not.The operation needed an hour and a table knife.Although the mother then had to be treated for a long time, the child survived.
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Articles Source: spynet.ru
