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Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald dies at 57; physician treated her own breast cancer at South Pole

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Jun. 24, 2009
FitzGerald diagnosed her illness at the isolated research station in March 1999 and was later evacuated in a daring rescue. She documented her ordeal in a best-selling book, 'Ice Bound.' Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who was the only physician at an isolated South Pole research station when she...
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