Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness

Podcast if you read most first aid guides, the last step in treating someone who's gotten injured or sick is always,

get the victim to professional medical help.

But what if you found yourself in a situation where hospitals were overcrowded,

inaccessible, or non-functional?

What if you found yourself in a grid down, long-term disaster

and you were the highest medical resource available?

Dr. Joel Alton is an expert in what would come after the step

where most first aid guides leave off. He's a retired surgeon and the co-author of

the Survival Medicine Handbook, the essential guide for when help is not on the

way.

Today in the show, Joe argues that every family should have a medical asset

and how to prepare to be a civilian medic.

We discuss the different levels of first aid kits to consider creating

from an individual kit all the way up to a community field

hospital.

And we talk about the health-related skills you might need in a long-term grid-down disaster,

from bearing a dead body to closing a wound with superglue, to making an improvised

dental filling, to even protecting yourself from the radiation of nuclear

fallout. After shows over check at our show notes at A.O.M.

I.Ss slash medic.

all right jollic. All right Joe Al, welcome to the show.

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