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top left: mcmurdo general hospital, the largest medical facility in antarctica, provides both acute care and inpatient treatment. (photo provided by James pattarini)
top right: James pattarini, m.d., mph (right) originally from Buffalo, new york, doesn't seem too deterred by the cold after touching down in antarctica. (photo provided by James pattarini)
Bottom: tarah castleberry, do, mph, and natacha chough, m.d., mph, identify mcmurdo station—a u.s. antarctic research center located on the southern tip of ross island.
before I came to antarctica, I was flying in formation flight with retired air force pilots
and I was being trained alongside air force flight surgeons even though I'm a civilian. and then
they sent me to the bottom of the world, in an environment that's going to give me memories
that I will have until the day I die.
— JaMES PaTTaRInI, M.d., MPh
aerospace medicine resident at the university of texas medical Branch at galveston
