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Polar bear attacks and darkness: inside a hospital at the top of the world

Longyearbyen Hospital is the northernmost hospital in the world, located just 800 miles from the North Pole on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard, Norway — How do you care for a polar bear bite? John Aksel Bilicz knows.

For more than 10 years, Bilicz has been hospital manager and head nurse at Longyearbyen Hospital, the northernmost hospital in

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