In this video, Joe Alton, MD, co-author of “the Survival Medicine Handbook“, introduces a major issue that anyone could experience in the cruel, cruel summer: Hyperthermia. In this first of two videos, Dr. Alton discusses the different types of heat emergencies, risk factors that you can mitigate, and municipal systems’ responses to heat waves, such as the ones that is killing thousands in India and Pakistan this month. Companion video to a previous article on the topic.

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Wishing you the best of health in good times or bad,

Joe Alton, MD

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