Antarctic medicine - the challenges of being a doctor in an isolated and confined environment

• Published in: Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
• Main Author: Coldron, Joanna Mary
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2009
• Subjects: Medicine; Health; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Rothera; Rothera Research Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10758/; http://www.wemjournal.org/article/S1080-6032(09)70422-3/fulltext

Rothera research station is a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) base on the Antarctic Peninsula that is operational year round. During the 8-month winter the 20 people living there are physically isolated from any other humans. I was the resident doctor during the 2005 season. I did not leave Antarctic...