Revised Edition - Where There Is No Doctor - A Village Health Care Handbook

This book should be required reading or at least present in all preppers library. Excellent coverage of required knowledge needed to survive bad times.
If you are a prepper, you MUST have this book in your library.

This is an excellent book for the entire family and community. How to diagnose treat, and prevent minor problems, what needs immediate attention, and when to involve a doctor. Great information that empowers one to utilize doctors accordingly.

Simply written by persons with great practical experience, there is no direct substitute for those who lack scientific background. My own family has used this text as a guide on the mission field. Robert D. Patton, MD, former professor of internal medicine in Liberia, West Africa.

Bought the book based on glowing reviews touting this as an indispensable reference in the absence of professional medical help. The description does say it's written for villages in 3rd world countries. Should have used that to decide not to purchase this. Information is pretty basic (e.g., wash hands after going to the bathroom and elevate legs or stand less to help reduce varicose veins). Sometimes the advice is downright insulting to the reader's intelligence (e.g., don't smear feces around an infected eye as this won't help and it might even make things worse, and never tie a crab around someone's goiter as that's not helpful for the condition). There are illustrations to go along with these warnings... a big, "DON'T" in bold caps next to pictures of a man with a ring of poop smudged around his eye and a guy with a crab tied around his goiter. So, perhaps for the local, non-English-speaking villagers, the illustrations are necessary, but then if they don't read English, how would they know to turn to that section for help in the first place? If this was designed to instruct those going in to help these communities with general health care needs, the book could have been written on a slightly higher level, without all the ugly and pointless drawings.

I bought this book after my professor introduced it to me during her lecture on disaster nursing. She used it in Africa and Port Au Prince and said it was super helpful. It has anything from simple fixes for breaks and sprains and even procedures that a doctor would normally perform that someone can refer to if they absolutely had to for whatever reason. I bought it just as a quick reference.

book arrived on time, it is filled with very practicle information especially for those not medically trained and with limited resources only reason for 4 stars was I hoped for more advanced information and a resourced list.

There is some very useful information and we are adding this to our prepper gear. It is easy to read and understand in which it would be a great addition to anyone prepping or going on a long journey into the backcountry.

In all fairness, I should probably give this another star but I am not a dr. so I am reluctant to give the final "Thumbs Up". Still, it looks to be an invaluable resource in an emergency situation. At this point I want to repeat- I can only pray I never need this. That being said, I am putting it with my First Aid kit.

What a great resource for the people from rural exotic places or those going to
do Medical Mission work in underserved areas. I literally memorized the book to prepare for our Mission trip.
So well done.
Obligatory reading for anyone going to rural medically underserved areas.

I love this book. It provides a lot of information on common and not so common illnesses and how to treat them, and how not to treat them. It's written for areas where doctors are not readily available, but does assume you have access to a dr (even if walking a few days to get to one) and also assume you have access to a healthcare worker or store who has access to drugs and antibiotics. I think it's a great teaching and treating resource, and I am glad to add it to my collection. There are a few things I didn't like, but they're mostly because I like continuity and consistency, and because I constantly proofread. A few examples are a reference to find a medicine on a certain page, yet that med isn't in the book at all except on the referring page, ten a med is supposed to be on a particular page, yet it's on the following page, and treatable symptoms and illnesses have the pages for those specific things listed in parenthesis SOMETIMES. ALSO, the book promotes vaccines, which I am against. I has measles, mumps and chickenpox as a child. I also participated in the measles get together. Overall, I do recommend this book.

this book served as our text during an overseas medical mission. the information it contains was invaluable. I loved it. I definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested in doing work in underdeveloped areas.

This is as others have mentioned a basic health guide book for areas that have only the very basic knowledge of medical issues.
It is written in such a way for small town people to understand the cause and effect o poor health habits.

It's "must" for a preparedness library. It presents all the information in plain simple language with no complicated medical terms. It covers a variety of topics in plain simple manner with plenty of illustrations..

This is an excellent handbook for anyone living in the back country or far from medical care. It is also an excellent consult for a medical provider working in remote locations where medicines and hospital care are not available.

This book is great for answering all kinds of questions, from how to dress a gunshot wound to childbirth. It also has a whole index of medicine doses and uses. It's no replacement for a doctor, but it's perfect for a go-bag (softcover textbook size) or survival homestead library. The knowledge/size&price ratio is very good. Pick up a copy and tuck it between the shotgun shells and first aide kit!

I love any book on health and the human anatomy, and I purchased this book in case of an emergency at home or maybe I would be in a situation to help someone else. It is very informative and I would highly recommend this to anyone. The book arrived in about three days and was very well packaged. I would order from this seller again.

I love any book on health and the human anatomy, and I purchased this book in case of an emergency at home or maybe I would be in a situation to help someone else. It is very informative and I would highly recommend this to anyone. The book arrived in about three days and was very well packaged. I would order from this seller again.

If you are trying to be self sufficient during disasters, camping, hiking or whenever you will be away from professional help this book will help you. Plenty of diagrams, alternative methods. Stop relying on FEMA folks.

Simple and direct treatments, easy for a layman to understand. Good advice on when doctor is a must and when you can try a common sense treatment first. Lots of useful info, but some is more relevant in 3rd world environment. Could save life. Thanks

Brilliant for the Adventurer/Traveler. Many countries avail medicines over the counter. Hmmm....if unsure about local Drs, this isca good second opinion....or Where There Is No Doctor? I'd highly recommend.