When There Is No Doctor: Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Uncertain Times

By Gerard S. Doyle

The fifth title in Process' Self-Reliance series demystifies medical practices with a practical approach to twenty-first-century health and home medicine, particularly helpful in a financial downturn. When There Is No Doctor is smartly designed and full of medical tips and emergency suggestions. At a time when our health system has become particularly susceptible to strain, it should be no further than an arm's reach away in your household. This is a book about sustainable health, primarily having to do with your health and what you can do to protect it--in bad times certainly, but also in good. I will help you ensure the health of those you love, yourself and, should you so choose, your community, if and when the world changes. World may come to mean your little town or the whole globe. It could change for a few days or weeks, or for a few years. It could change because of a flood, financial crisis, flu pandemic, or failure of our energy procurement, production or distribution systems. I will not teach you to be a lone survivalist who anticipates doing an appendectomy on himself or a loved one on the kitchen table with a steak knife and a few spoons, although I will discuss techniques of austere and improvised medicine for really hard times. Gerard S. Doyle, MD , teaches and practices emergency medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he also plans the hospital's response to disasters.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934170119
• ISBN13: 9781934170113
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Process
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

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Imagine if you could not get to see a Doctor, emergency rooms are full, and the internet is down. This book is my first go to when something happens to me. Carefully explaining health care in third world countries from a volunteers viewpoint who is embedded with sick folks. What are the symptoms? How long has this been happening? What can be done when there is no pharmacy anywhere? Keep in mind this is your book, highlight things for you to come back to. Put sticky notes on the pages you think you will need and keep the book handy. Its that good and very relevent.