Joseph Alton

When I read this, I was expecting an expanded first-aid book. Basically, if you were stuck somewhere miles from the nearest hospital and needed to set a fracture or something, what would you need to do.

This book was actually completely different. This book is in a genre I hadn't heard of before, for an audience I didn't know existed. Now, I've learned there's a "prepper" community out there, and this book is aimed very much in their direction.

Basically, if you believe:

1. Civilization (in general) will collapse within your lifetime
2. The resulting world will be a libertarian dystopia similar to Mad Max or any zombie survival movie
3. When this happens, you (without medical knowledge) will be the closest to a medical expert around

and are wondering how exactly you should prepare your post-apocalypse clinic, then this is the book for you.

I don't believe any of the above, so I had trouble reading it. It dips far more into survivalist fantasy than "what happens if I break my leg and can't reach the phone" levels of practicality I was hoping for.… (altro)