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Hey Preppers, I haven’t spent a great deal of time discussing chest pain due to coronary artery disease, even though it is one of the leading causes of death in today’s society.  Why? It will, as you can imagine, be difficult in a collapse situation to do very much about heart attacks, due to the [...]

Hey Preppers, Emergency room physicians in busy medical centers see and treat a lot of finger injuries each week.  From lacerations (cuts) to fractures, it is often difficult to fully evaluate and treat (suturing a cut or straightening a broken or displaced finger bone) without numbing the area.  Even cleaning blood or debris from an [...]

Hey Prepper  Nation,  Even with today’s modern medical technology, most of us can’t avoid the occasional  respiratory infection.  Without strict adherence to sanitary protocol, it would be very easy in a collapse situation for your entire community to come down with colds, sinusitis, influenza or even pneumonia.  Most respiratory infections are spread by viral particles, [...]

Hey Preppers, Last time, we talked about the importance of  keeping your eyesight sharp (and protected).  If you ask the average man in the street which of the five senses they would most like to preserve, you can bet that they’ll say their eyesight.  After discussing eye infections in my last article, I think we [...]

Hey Preppers,   Anyone that is interested in preserving the health of their loved ones in a collapse will have to learn what antibiotics will work in a particular situation.  It’s not enough to have a supply of the medication; you have to know how and when to use it.   Even more importantly, it’s important [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, One of the most common questions that I am asked from prospective survival medics is “What antibiotics should I stockpile and how do I use them?” There isn’t a 60 second answer to this. Actually, there isn’t a 60 MINUTE answer to this, but anyone that is interested in preserving the health [...]

Hey Preppers, If you read my blog, you have probably decided to be the person that will take responsibility for the medical well-being of your loved ones in a collapse.  As a card-carrying member of the Prepper Medical Corps, you have chosen to pick up the flag and work towards being an effective caregiver in [...]

Hey Preppers, The most common issue you’ll see relating to the ear is pain, especially in children. The ear is divided into 3 chambers, the outer, middle and inner ear. Inflammation and/or infection of the ear is called Otitis. Evaluation of the ear canal is performed with a special instrument known as an otoscope.  The [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, The delivery of a baby is best accomplished with the help of an experienced midwife or obstetrician, but those professionals will be hard to find in a collapse situation.  If there is no chance of accessing modern medical care, it will be up to you to perform the delivery.  The following is [...]

Hey Preppers, There was a time when the announcement of a pregnancy was met with concern as well as joy.  In a collapse situation, some of these concerns will present themselves again.  Despite this, we know a lot more about the importance of hygiene and clean conditions that we did before.  This will help prevent [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, One of the questions I am asked most often is how to deal with Type 1 (Insulin-Dependent) diabetics in a collapse situation.  I have been informed that Insulin was prepared in Singapore during WWII, in an effort to produce medicine for those in the Jewish community that were denied access to Insulin.  [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, The thyroid gland is positioned just in front of the Adam’s Apple and produces hormones that help regulate your metabolism.  The thyroid produces substances that regulate growth, energy and the body’s utilization of other hormones and vitamins.  Thyroid disease usually involves the production of either too little or too much of these [...]

Hey Preppers, Your medical supplies should vary depending on how long you anticipate being the sole medical resource for your family or survival group.  If you expect to be power-down for a few days or a few weeks, you probably won’t need a lot of dental equipment.  If there is a true collapse situation, however, [...]

Hey Preppers, Head injuries can be soft tissue injuries (brain, scalp, blood vessels) or bony injuries (skull, facial bones).  Damage can be caused by direct impact, such as a laceration in the scalp or a fracture of the skull (also called the “cranium”).  It can also be caused by the rebound of the brain against [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, In a collapse situation, we will be required to perform many outdoors activities we are not used to. We’ll be chopping wood, making fires, and doing various chores that have the potential for injury. Simple injuries like cuts and minor burns will be more common, and so will complications when those wounds [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, Most medical guides are intended to aid you in managing emergency situations in austere and remote locations.  Certainly, modern medical care on an ocean voyage or wilderness hike is not readily available.  Even trips to populated areas of underdeveloped countries may fit this category as well.  There are medical strategies that are [...]

Hey Preppers, One of the options for a retreat that few of us will consider is that of buying a boat and sailing off to safe haven in times of collapse.  For most of us, the distance to the ocean is simply too far to make this a reasonable option.  For those who have access [...]

Hey Preppers, Tune in tonight at 9pm EST/8pm CST when Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy welcome Chance Sanders of Dave Canterbury’s Pathfinder School to the Doom and Bloom(tm) Show.  Chance is a former marine who’s an expert at teaching wilderness skills and also teaches about personal and home security.  Dr. Bones will also talk about [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, It’s time to talk about the 7 deadly sins, sins that will lead to damnation for those foolish enough to commit them in these dangerous times! No, not wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy and gluttony.  We should be so lucky as to be able to “glutton-ize” if a collapse ever occurs.  [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, Well, this week has been the end of an era for the United States, and probably the world.  With the launch of the shuttle Atlantis on its last flight ever, the era of serious manned space exploration has come to a close.   This has been met by cheers and jeers by those [...]

Hey Preppers, As an old “country” doctor (don’t mind that creaking noise, it’s just the rocking chair or maybe my joints), I have been saddened by the turn that traditional medicine has taken in the recent past.  It seems that most young doctors today are becoming employees of large medical corporations.  Instead of hanging up [...]

End of the world as we know it (TEOTWAWKI) There are  many levels of medical training available now and I encourage you to learn as much as you can, especially if you plan to be your family, group or community medic. However, IF you are strictly learning the material for collapse medicine scenerios, this is [...]