Doctor at Antarctic Station Is Stricken. For the second time, the only physician working at the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole has been stricken and had to do self-diagnosis. Dr. Ronald Shemenski appears to have acute pancreatitis, has done an abdominal ultrasound on himself, inserted a nasogastric tube, etc. Recall Dr. Jerri Nielsen’s October 1999 emergency evacuation after she was stricken and diagnosed her own breast cancer. New York Times