![]() to show he could kill us") having managed to gain custody of their daughter and two sons in a vicious divorce battle.Įstranged from her children and wishing to jump-start her life, Nielsen answered the National Science Foundation's ad for a South Pole physician - and got the job.Īt this point the book becomes a truly fascinating adventure tale. Nielsen begins her tale back in her night emergency-room practice at a Cleveland hospital where she treated every type of urban malady: blunt trauma, drug overdoses, knife and gunshot wounds, etc.īut she had a rather humdrum existence, living in her parents' house, her abusively controlling husband ("He drove into oncoming traffic. ![]() Nielsen's discovery of her breast cancer, her self-treatment and her perilous airborne rescue captured world attention and are now the subject of a riveting memoir written with Maryanne Vollers. ![]() Jerri Nielsen, the 46-year-old emergency-room doctor who took a sabbatical to work for 40 research scientists and support staff at the South Pole's Scott-Amundsen Station, was one of the big news stories of 1999. ![]()
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