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A physician's travel medicine kit list in three tiers: everyday, international, and austere. What to pack, what needs a prescription, and how to travel with it legally.

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Not Medical Advice The following discussion is educational and is not medical advice. It does not imply a physician-patient relationship, nor is anything discussed herein intended to advocate for any specific medical treatment or...

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Cleaning, dressing, debridement, and Dakin's solution when evacuation is measured in days; a prolonged casualty care framework.

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A first-aid kit is not a medical system. Neither is a telemedicine subscription, an evacuation plan, or a staff member with medical training.

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Field Notes An Institution For Operational Medicine Operational medicine is the whole of what we do at AMC — medicine practiced where the system isn’t. So when we point to the organizations advancing the...

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Ticks are everywhere in spring and summer and they carry potentially lethal disease plus one very inconvenient allergen. A physician's field guide to prevention, safe tick removal, the symptoms that matter, and when to...

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Staying current with evidence is essential everywhere — and mission-critical in austere environments. A structured, pragmatic approach to reading, analyzing, and critiquing medical literature for resource-limited care.

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A theoretical four-day exercise in severe scarcity: what an austere medic carries when infrastructure, supply chains, and the rule of law are gone — and why training, not gear, is the most important thing...

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A field-medicine primer for overlanders: the injuries most likely to end a trip — cuts, burns, and bad water — how to prevent them, and how to build a sub-$20 kit to handle them.

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Campfires, unstable cook stoves, hot suppressors, and sun are just a few causes of burns in the field. Here is how to prevent them — and the basic first aid when one happens.

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Preparedness is not about hoarding supplies. It is about the knowledge, capability, and sense of community to sustain your family and neighbors when systems fail.

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We sent a team to Direct Action Resource Center's new TUSC-MED OPS course. Here is our after-action report on building a functioning clinic when power, clean water, and rescue are gone.

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