Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook,   ISBN:9780942364156

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This book was recommended to me by a nurse who had been on a number of medical missions to Africa. After looking through it, I believe that it would be a necessary reference book for anyone who might be able to access modern medical resources. There are many such situations ranging from a hurricane such as Katrina, or living in an area where medical resources are not readily available. It is a little large to be carried in a backpack but if you are going on an expedition it would be a good resource. There are many books which are supposedly "home medical guides" but most are written for people in the US who are 5 minutes from a pharmacy or hospital. This book gives you specific medical details that you might need in any emergency. For example childbirth...a lot of detail but in simple language with line drawings. Follow the directions and you too could help birth a child! I would recommend this for everyone's library but especially missionaries in rural areas. Spanish available.

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This book is well worth the space it takes up in your luggage. As a primary care provider, I shouldn't need this, right? But I am also helpless without the supplies and medicines I was accustomed to having at my fingertips. This amazing book includes how to make emergency formula from milk powder, how much of which electrolytes goes into oral rehydration products, ideas for splinting, and emergency dentistry. I left my book there for co-worker's use when I came back and have regretted it - some of the instructions are fine for "where there is a doctor but you don't want to pay an arm and a leg for something you can take care of at home."

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I bought this for our yearly trips to Haiti. It contains invaluable information. The only thing that would be better is if it were spiral bound so it could lay flat. Otherwise it covers all the bases

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fist thing fist I'm as backpacker and survival instructor. most of the books I read deal with fist aid and truma [ sorry bad speller] long term village hearth care is not my thing. if it's your thing plaese buy this book and use's it , it will help ,most of this book is on preventive medicine and pregnancy and prenatal care, that fall out of my frield of need . it not A bad book but not great for me

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This may not be the be all end all, but read at home before the adventure begins , it will get one ready to ask the right questons, and be better preped for what remote intails! Lots of usable info, tech, and prevention!