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Summary: A Fantastic Book
Review: This and the companion volume, Where There is No Dentist, provide great practical grass-roots solutions to the problem of rising health care costs. As you might guess, Where There Is No Doctor and Where There is No Dentist, people practice proactive prevention instead of reactive treatment. Certainly it is good to live in a country where Doctors and Dentists abound, but they are expensive, and preventitive living is healthy living. Following the advice in these books won't just save you medical bills; it'll make you a healthier and better person all around. My highest recommendation...
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Summary: Good overall coverage.
Review: This book does an excellent job of doing exactly what it promises to go: give the average, medically untrained person a good sense of how to look at a health care situation and respond to it intelligently.I have been active training people in wilderness emergency care for some years now, and this is one of the books that I always recommend. When a friend of mine went to live in Russia (in the Siberia area) I recommended that he take along a paramedic manual and this book. Both books served him well, but he referred to this book much more often. Overall, for a person who is going to be in a medically isolated area and/or in an area where the general level of health knowledge is low, this is an absolutely outstanding book. This company also published "Where There Is No Dentist" and "The Village Midwife." Both are excellent. They recently came out with another great book titled "Where Women Have No Doctor." I really like and respect the work these people do.
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Summary: DONT LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT
Review: This book is amazing! I worked in Guatemala for around 8 months in community development, with a rural indigenous pueblo. We tried to get in as many doctors as possible, but when that failed, we could always use this book--the diagrams of each disease (especially the skin diseases, prevalent in Central America) helped us to decide how to address each person's health concerns. I only wish there was a copy in K'iche' for the community leaders to have to use! The forms included in the book for basic check ups and keeping medical records will be helpful in the future when we set up a clinic. I can't emphasize what a straight forward, useful, and practical book this is. If you intend to work anywhere in a developing country, with health or not, you need this book.
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Summary: A must for anyone working in international development
Review: This book is amazing! I worked in Guatemala for around 8 months in community development, with a rural indigenous pueblo. We tried to get in as many doctors as possible, but when that failed, we could always use this book--the diagrams of each disease (especially the skin diseases, prevalent in Central America) helped us to decide how to address each person's health concerns. I only wish there was a copy in K'iche' for the community leaders to have to use! The forms included in the book for basic check ups and keeping medical records will be helpful in the future when we set up a clinic. I can't emphasize what a straight forward, useful, and practical book this is. If you intend to work anywhere in a developing country, with health or not, you need this book.
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Summary: An excellent overall look at medical emergent care
Review: This book is an absolute must have for anyone who feels they might be put in the roll of medical provider. I do recommend this book highly and have given it to several friends, as a reference. It gives clear and consise directions for many things including childbirth, trauma, and even many diseases and parasites we feel will never happen here. The only drawbacks are the diseases that require medicines that are precription and can't be purchased by an individual to take into the wilderness or home, in this country. The book does also list several alternatives to these medicines if they are unavailable. I recommend this book to anyone to read from cover to cover (and then keep as a reference) if you feel that at any time you may be hours or even days from medical care.
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Summary: A Real Life Saver!!!!!
Review: This book is written in very easy to read english. Which is part of its value. Not being in the medical field and if I had to deliver a baby in the bush in Africa I want the book to be written as simply as possible. The drawings are a bit better than stick men but they get the point across. My wife and I lived in West Africa and quite often in the bush. Places where you do not find a doctor and the hospitals are less than our American medicine cabinets. This book has helped through malaria; yellow fever; insect bites; dehydration; water purification; etc. These were areas that we truly faced and the book took us through. Yes, we survived!! If you know anyone in the 3rd. world, do them a great service and get them this book. No missionary or business men to the 3rd. world have any business leaving without this book.
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Summary: A book to keep and pass on.
Review: This book offers the very best reference for providing medical care in an environment where medical professionals are not available. It should be required reading for all medical students and certainly should be in the poses ion of anyone interested in emergency preparedness.
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Summary: Simply the best layman's medical guide, period.
Review: This book should be in every home. It was especially designed for people in rural areas without access to a doctor but the medical information is applicable anywhere. The way the information is presented - it is written to be easily understood by anyone and you don't need a medical degree to do so - is impressive. The wealth of information here on a large number of topics, from symptoms to treatment to possible drug side-effects, is also impressive. While most laymans' medical manuals deliberately withhold information and tell you to "see a doctor" for certain things, this book does not. As such it should be extremely valuable for emergencies. It is no substitute for a doctor but is indespensible for those situations where no doctor is available.
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Summary: Our medical work teams would not survive without this book!
Review: We have been taking medical work teams to Haiti for several years. Our teams have used so many copies of this book to help us through so many diagnosis and treatment problems. We work in remote areas with no other medical help and this book has helped us through many situations! It is so creative.
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Summary: I won't leave home without it!
Review: We just returned from a trip to Honduras to work as part of the Hurricane Mitch Medical Relief efforts. This book (Spanish Edition) was a life saver for the medical team and the Hondurans we were treating. The text is comprehensive enough to assist in diagnosis and treatment for the team, and basic enough to share with the patients and provide education for them as well as cure what ails them. A must for anyone practicing medicine in developing countries! I'm purchasing my own copies to help with our practice in NM very near the Mexico border!
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