Prepper's Medical Handbook

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A book about prevention, identification, and long-term management of survivable medical conditions.

In the event of an actual emergency in your region, you may be lacking in emergency services as they are over-extended trying to reach everyone at once, or unable to get to you due to road conditions or weather. During this time it is imperative you find a way to take care of yourself, or those around you. 

When a medical emergency arises, this book will guide you through how to handle it so you don't need to rely on someone else. Being self reliant means you can take care of these things without needing outside assistance. Find out how to dress wounds, handle certain bites, and even how to suture wounds.

This book provides the basis of prevention, identification, and long-term management of survivable medical conditions and can be performed with minimal training. It helps you identify sources of materials you will need and should stock-pile, it discusses storage issues, and directs you to sources for more complex procedures that require advanced concepts of field-expedient techniques used by trained medical persons such as surgeons, anesthesiologists, dentists, or midwifes and obstetricians.

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Biography
William W. Forgey, M.D. is an avid humanitarian, adventurer, physician and educator, Dr. Forgey is the founding advisor of the nonprofit Medical Student Missions and has lead over 40 medical service trips to Haiti since 2010.

A member of the Board of Trustees of the International Association for Medical Assistance to Travelers (IAMAT), Dr Forgey is a lecturer on medical care in high risk recreation at several universities, and a leader of many expeditions into Northern Canada, both summer and winter. A former Captain, Infantry, in the US Army, he had over 30 months active duty in Vietnam prior to leaving the service and attending medical school at Indiana University. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal for his service in Vietnam. He worked 6 years full time as an Emergency Room physician and director of the Ross Clinic Emergency Services in Merrillville, Indiana, before starting his practice of family medicine. Dr Forgey has served as a Scoutmaster for three BSA troops and as a Medical Explorer Post and High Adventure Explorer Post Advisor. He completed his BSA Woodbadge training in 1969. He was named as one of America’s 20 greatest living explorers by the Explorers Club in New York City and, as such, had a subcamp named for him at the National Boy Scout Jamboree in 2005.

He is the author of Wilderness Medicine (1979, 2d Ed 1983, 3rd Ed 1987, 4th Ed 1994, 5th Ed 2000, 6th Ed 2012, 7th Ed 2017 (Globe Pequot Press – Falcon imprint) , Hypothermia (1985) ICS Books, Campfire Stories (1985, 2nd Ed 2011) (Falcon), Basic Essentials of Outdoor First Aid (1989) (Falcon), Basic Essentials of Wilderness First Aid (1999, 2nd Ed 2007)(Falcon), Basic Illustrated Wilderness First Aid (2008, 2nd Ed 2016), Campfire Tales (1989, 2nd Ed 1999, 3rd Ed 2011)(Falcon), The Travelers' Medical Resource (1990) (ICS Books), The Travelers' Self Care Manual (1990) (ICS Books), and Basic Essentials of Hypothermia (1991, 2nd Ed 1999) (Falcon), The Wilderness Medical Society's Practice Guidelines for Pre-hospital Care (editor, 3rd Ed 1995, 4th Ed 2001, 5th Ed 2006) (Falcon), The Doctor's Little Book of Wisdom, (1995) (ICS Books), Campfire Stories, Vol III (1995) (Falcon), Wilderness First Aid (1996, 2nd Ed 2003)(Falcon), and The Dieter's Little Book of Wisdom (1996) (ICS Books). Dr. Forgey contributed to the current edition of the Field Book, 3rd Ed (1984), Classic Campfire Stories (2017) (Globe Pequot), and a contributor to the Boy Scout Handbook, 12th Ed, 2010, published by the Boy Scouts of America, The Wilderness Educator (1991), a text book for outdoor educators, and Fishing First Aid (2002), The Prepper’s Medical Handbook (2020)((Lyon’s Press - Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group) and to Expedition Medicine (2008) from Cambridge University Press. He was the Chairman of the Boy Scout of America Wilderness First Aid Task Force that worked with the American Red Cross in developing their Wilderness and Remote First Aid course launched in 2010 and updated in March 2017.

He has been awarded numerous honors including:
elected Fellow, Explorer's Club, New York City, 1975
Wilderness Medical Society Education Award 1997, Founders’ Award 2004,
Indiana University School of Medicine ΑΩΑ Volunteer Faculty of the Year 2000
Wilderness Education Association Paul Petzoldt Award 2005
National Jamboree Boy Scout of America Honoree, 2005
Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal, US Army, RVN service, awarded 1968
Outdoorsman of the Year, Gary Post-Tribune, 1982
Humanitarian Award for International Service, Indian American Medical Association, 2012
Asian-American Medical Society of Northwest Indiana Crystal Globe Humanitarian Award 2016
Psychological Operations Veterans Association National Humanitarian Award, 2018.

Overall rating: 4.757576 / 5 from 33 reviews.

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"I learned a good deal from this book about basic first aid. However, I did find that the advice for more acute conditions were too technical. The book also went into depth about gamma rays and nuclear poisoning. It’ll take an education to grasp that. Overall, not really what I expected. I’ll probably give it another read before I pass it off to my Son-In-Law. He’s a Scientist."

Nancy S. (5/5)

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"Great service, fast and reliable"

Troy B. (5/5)

Medical Handbook is great!

"Have not had to use it yet but I’m glad I purchased it… and have been ready it. Thanks"

Daisy B. (5/5)

VERY practical

"Very good seller and very important purchase"

Deborah P. (5/5)

Preppers Medical Handbook

"Terrible! This book is just general information. When I tried to return it, they required it to be shipped back in the original packaging. UPS quoted me $22 to return a $15 book. I found it cheaper to throw the book into the recycle bin where it will be turned into something useful. I will NEVER buy anything else from My Patriot Supply!"

Bill S. (1/5)

Medical handbook

"This book is great, it has so much information with step by step instructions. The size is great too if we have to throw it in our bug out bag."

Linda H. (5/5)

Get ready!!

"Great products for a great price! Haven’t tried items yet but have tried previous products and they were great! Very fast shipping!!"

Rebecca J. (5/5)

Everything!

"Everything I receive from Patriot Supply is exactly as stated. No surprises or disappointments from these guys!"

David H. (5/5)

Must have!

"This is a must have, it’s something the average prepper needs even though we hope to never ever have to use it. Incidents and accidents happen!"

Lauren K. (5/5)

I shall be prepared

"MPS has always bin a pleasure to purchase from. Quality all around!"

Paul W. (5/5)

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Is this an E-book or an actual physical copy??
This is an actual physical copy.
Do you offer quantity discounts on the Medical Handbook shipped to a community group? Thank you, Jimmy Stoner
Not sure of that on our end, but please feel free to give us a call at 866.229.0927 - Available 24/7/365

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