Joseph Alton
Författare till The Survival Medicine Handbook: A Guide for When Help is Not on the Way
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Joseph Alton, MD, is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of OB/GYN and the founder of the survival website DoomandBloom.net. Dr. Alton is the author of the bestselling The Survival Medicine Handbook and is one of the most popular speakers in the country on crisis visa mer medicine. He has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune magazine, the Miami Herald, Tulsa World, Small Business Trendsetters, Mother Jones, and on various ABC, CBS, and Fox affiliates. Dr. Alton is a popular medical keynote speaker at survival and preparedness events throughout the country, and has been at the forefront of advising citizens on how to understand and survive the Ebola crisis. visa färre
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- Verk
- 4
- Medlemmar
- 118
- Popularitet
- #167,490
- Betyg
- 2.5
- Recensioner
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
This book was actually completely different. This book is in a genre I hadn't heard of before, for an audience I didn't know existed. Now, I've learned there's a "prepper" community out there, and this book is aimed very much in their direction.
Basically, if you believe:
1. Civilization (in general) will collapse within your lifetime
2. The resulting world will be a libertarian dystopia similar to Mad Max or any zombie survival movie
3. When this happens, you (without medical knowledge) will be the closest to a medical expert around
and are wondering how exactly you should prepare your post-apocalypse clinic, then this is the book for you.
I don't believe any of the above, so I had trouble reading it. It dips far more into survivalist fantasy than "what happens if I break my leg and can't reach the phone" levels of practicality I was hoping for.… (mer)