The Icy Village Where You Must Remove Your Appendix

Annotation by Deane Barker • •
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180810-villas-las-estrellas-antarctica-base-residents-surgery
Narrative

A settlement in Antarctica is so remote and isolated, that you can’t still have your appendix and live there because the nearest hospital is so hard to get to that a burst appendix will kill you.

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