Leonid Rogozov, Russian physician and surgeon (born 1934)

Leonid Rogozov

Russian doctor who performed an auto-appendectomy (1934–2000)

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…