and giving talks until March 2009, three months before her death. She died at her home in Southwick, Massachusetts on June 23, 2009, at age 57. She was survived by her second husband, Tom Fitzgerald; her parents, Lorine and Phil Cahill; her brothers, Scott Cahill and Eric Cahill; and her children from her previous marriage: Julia, Ben and Alex. Media depictions With ghostwriter Maryanne Vollers, Nielsen's story was told in the autobiographical Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Story of Survival at the South Pole, which became a New York Times bestseller. The book was later adapted into Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole, a 2003 CBS-TV movie starring Susan Sarandon, and in 2008 became the inspiration for an episode of Fox Network show House, "Frozen", in which the team must somehow, via teleconference, diagnose and treat a stricken psychiatrist at the South Pole. The story of her rescue was featured on The Weather Channel's When Weather Changed History in the "Rescue from the South Pole" in January 2008. See also Nielsen's case shares some similarities with that of Dr. Leonid Rogozov, who had to remove his own appendix while spending the winter at Novolazarevskaya research station in 1961. Since this incident, that station has always been staffed with two doctors. References Sources External links AP Obituary in the Boston Herald RIP Dr Jerri Nielsen Jerri Nielsen Daily Telegraph obituary 1952 births 2009 deaths American emergency physicians Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts Deaths from breast cancer People from Southwick, Massachusetts People from Youngstown, Ohio Female polar explorers People from Salem, Ohio Women Antarctic scientists American Antarctic scientists Health in Antarctica American people of Irish descent 20th-century American women physicians 20th-century American physicians 20th-century American people 21st-century American women