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#942 Show: Medical Emergencies during a Natural Disaster – Are you Prepared?

The Staying Young Show 2.0 - Entertaining | Educational | Health & Wellness

Release Date: 07/04/2018

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Show Topic: Medical Emergencies during a Natural Disaster – Are you Prepared?

Co-Hosts:  Judy Gaman, Walter Gaman, Mark Anderson

Guest: Dr. Joseph "Bones" Alton, M.D.  author of The Survival Medicine Handbook: The Essential Guide for When Medical Help is Not on the Way

 

Segment 1:

Floods, tornados, volcanos. We are seeing record number of natural disasters. Are you ready when it comes to an emergency and the emergency medical people are either overwhelmed or simply unavailable? Comin up later this hour, Dr. Joseph "Bones" Alton, M.D. author of the best-selling book The Survival Medicine Handbook: The Essential Guide for When Medical Help is Not on the Way

  • Talk about the things we have in our own homes – should we have more?
  • How doctors and hospitals triage or prepare for disasters
  • The role of the CDC in preparing doctors for outbreaks

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THAT MUSIC MEANS IT’S TIME FOR DOC SHOC. A TIME WHEN WE FIND SOMETHING SHOCKING IN THE NEWS OR WE’RE SHOCKED IT MADE THE NEWS.

Do you have a sweet tooth? You may be one of the lucky ones who do. Research from the University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences shows that people with a sweet tooth often have a genetic variation that leads them to have less body fat. It goes against our natural intuition, but people with gene variation of FGF21, the sweet tooth gene, have a predisposition to less body fat than others. The bad news is that these people generally have a higher risk for high blood pressure, so eating healthy is even more important for them.

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What’s in your emergency medical kit at home? Stay tuned to find out what SHOULD be in it.

 

Segment 2:

Today’s focus is on staying healthy and staying alive during an emergency, specifically when medical help may not be readily available. Dr. Joe Alton, author of the best-seller The Survival Medicine Handbook is coming up to help you prepare.

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Joe Alton, MD, FACOG, FACS, is a Life Fellow of the American College of OB/GYN and retired Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.  He’s the NY Times and Amazon bestselling author of The Survival Medicine Handbook: The Essential Guide for When Medical Help is Not on the Way, and other books.

His website at doomandbloom.net has over 1000 articles, videos, and podcasts on medical preparedness, as well as an entire line of medical kits for everything from family camping trips to medical missions in austere settings. Besides contributing regularly to several magazines in the survival and homesteading genre, Dr. Alton travels the country speaking on medical preparedness.

His mission: To put a medically-prepared person in every family.

  • How did you first get interested in disaster preparedness?
  • What is the difference between true survival medicine and modern emergency medicine?
  • Why is your Survival Medicine Handbook any different from the average First Aid book?
  • What are some must-have medical supplies you’ll need in a disaster setting?
  • Tell us about the medical kits you’ve designed.

Coming up  - pick your disaster, we’re going to have tips for you on each one.

 

Segment 3:

Visiting with Dr. Joe Alton, author of The Survival Medicine Handbook: The Essential Guide for When Medical Help is Not on the Way

  • Tornados
  • Floods
  • Illness outbreak of a cruise
  • Shooting or terrorist attack

Open discussion

 

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 Medical Mania Trivia – Trivia Sallie

  1. T or F. The largest organ in the body is the liver (F – it’s the skin)
  2. Do veins or arteries carry oxygen rich blood AWAY from the heart? (Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to the body, and veins carry oxygen-poor blood back from the body to the heart.)
  3. T or F. Blue is the world’s most common eye color (F – brown)
  4. What degree burn is a blistering sunburn considered? (2nd degree - affects the epidermis and the dermis causing pain, redness, swelling, and blistering.)
  5. What does COPD stand for? (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

Open discussion

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