Not to make light of anyone’s suffering… pancreatitis, after all, is supposedly one of the most painful experiences possible… but I thought it odd that I had just helped my roommate study for this condition last night, and now today, I find out that the only physician on Antarctica has pancreatitis.

Which got me thinking about my irrational desire to be a physician on Antarctica… perhaps in training for being a physician on the International Space Station, the Mission to Mars, or perhaps the Mission to Europa….