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EP 1,172B - THE SURVIVAL MEDICINE HANDBOOK: The Essential Guide for When help is NOT on the way

If a disaster took away the high-technology we take for granted, would you be prepared to keep you family healthy? Could you be an effective medic when hospitals are overcrowded and the ambulance is heading in the other direction? Can you take over if you were the highest medical asset left? Medical preparedness advocates Joe Alton, MD and Amy Alton, NP’s award-winning “Survival Medicine Handbook: A guide for when help is NOT on the way” is now out in its greatly expanded and revised 4th edition!

Joseph Alton, M.D. and Amy Alton, A.R.N.P co-wrote The Survival Medicine Handbook", a guide for the non-medical professional to staying healthy is situations where help is NOT on the way.  It has occupied the #1 Amazon Bestseller spot numerous times in the Survival Skills, Disaster Relief, and the Safety and First Aid categories since it was published and is an Amazon Best Seller Top 100 book. Their Ebola book is a New York Times Best Seller, "The Ebola Survival Handbook". They have also written "The Zika Virus Handbook: A Doctor Explains All You Need To Know About The Pandemic".

EP 1,172B - THE SURVIVAL MEDICINE HANDBOOK:  The Essential Guide for When help is NOT on the way
Featuring:
Joseph Alton, MD

Joseph Alton practiced as a board-certified Obstetrician and Pelvic Surgeon for more than 25 years before retiring to devote his efforts to preparing your family medically for any scenario. He has been a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American College of Surgeons for many years, served as department chairman at local hospitals and as an adjunct professor at local university nursing schools. He is a popular speaker at survival and preparedness conferences on the subject of medical preparedness.


Joseph Alton, M.D. and Amy Alton, A.R.N.P. are the premiere Medical Preparedness Professionals from the top survival website www.doomandbloom.net.


Dr. and Ms. Alton are regular contributors to homesteading and survival genre magazines and are three-times winners off the medical category of the Book Excellence Awards in 2022, 2020, and 2017. Dr. and Ms. Alton are firm believers that, to remain healthy in hard times, we must use all the tools at our disposal. Their goal is to put a medically-prepared person in every family for any disaster. Their books are written in plain English easy to understand for the non-medically trained.


Amy Alton is an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner and a Certified Nurse-Midwife. She has had years of experience working in large teaching institutions as well as smaller, family-oriented hospitals. Nurse Practitioner Alton is a Certified Stop The Bleed Instructor and a Certified Advanced Wilderness Expedition Provider. Mrs. Alton has taught Survival Medicine classes across the country. Dr. and Ms. Alton are regular contributors to homesteading and survival genre magazines and are three-times winners off the medical category of the Book Excellence Awards in 2022, 2020, and 2017.