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Ep. 44 If You Want Something Done Right, Do It Yourself
Sometimes you just gotta do it yourself. Stories of three fab fellas who decided to take matters into their own hands. They said ‘F it, I’ll do it myself”
Dr. Barry Marshall, Australian Gastroenterologist who infected himself with an ulcer causing bacteria to prove he knew the cure
Almon Brown Strowger, inventor of the automatic switchboard after his own employee was directing calls from his business to the competition
Leonid Rogozov, Russian surgeon performed an appendectomy on himself in Antarctica
Links:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2005/marshall/biographical/
https://www.sparkmuseum.org/almon-b-strowger-the-undertaker-who-revolutionized-telephone-technology/
https://www.dailyrounds.org/blog/chilling-the-story-of-a-surgeon-who-cut-down-his-own-appendix/