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 Dr. Jerri Nielsen, MD.
Dr. Jerri Nielsen’s South Pole saga has unfolded as both a
gripping human drama and a modern allegory of the limits of
technology. After discovering in June that she had a tumor in her
breast, she could not be evacuated because of the weather, which
held her prisoner for more than four months-marooning her, in an
age of jet travel and instant communication, as surely as an
18th-century sailor on a desert island. With her rescue, there was
finally the glimmer of a happy ending. As Dr. Nielsen mordantly
told friends in an August e-mail:" It has been a Hell of an
adventure, but not the one that I had planned."
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