GENERAL SAYS MC WINNER EARNED VC Surgical drama of Mindanao jungle

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MartyVentura on January 12nd, 2020 at 18:51 UTC »

This is so weird I’m in the ER scrolling through reddit and just got told by doc i have appendicitis. Glad I don’t have to cut it out myself!

Catharas on January 12nd, 2020 at 16:56 UTC »

There was a doctor on Antarctica who did this - he was the only doctor, so when he himself got appendicitis there was no other option. At least he had equipment though.

Morigyn on January 12nd, 2020 at 16:44 UTC »

“Following the end of the war, McLaren was discharged from the AIF and transferred to the Reserve of Officers List in early 1946. Following this he became a government veterinarian in New Guinea. He remained in this role until 1956 when he began growing coffee, buying a plantation at Wau. On 3 March 1956, McLaren was accidentally killed when rotted timber fell on him near his home after he backed a vehicle against a dead tree.”

Jesus. He survived a fuckton, took his own appendix out, was a POW, and then some rotted timber took him out.