Conventional Medicine: Introduction

The following post and all posts in the Conventional Medicine category are for informational and entertainment purposes only. Always consult a physician for any questions regarding your health or that of a family member. In this section I merely discuss items to have on hand to provide care for your family, for when a licensed healthcare provider is available but supplies are hard or impossible to come by.

Fortunately for you but not for me, I write from the perspective of a patient or wife or mother of a patient which includes but is not limited to the following conditions:  type 1 diabetes, hypothyroidism, amputation, spleen and gall bladder removal, gastroparesis, abdominal wall injury, duodenal ulcers, kidney stones, lots of stitches, chronic constipation, migraines, tendinosis, failure to thrive, corneal abrasion and ulcer, excruciating menstrual cramps, sprains, and plantar fasciitis.

Over the past two years, I’ve attended three separate grid-down medical courses taught by former Special Forces physicians with a wide range of experience on the battlefield and in emergency rooms. The courses were for lay people who want to be able to provide medical care to their family when there is no doctor available.

The classes focused primarily on treatment options, but also emphasized the importance of acquiring basic essential supplies and medications, even if we did not know how to use them. History has shown that in a long-term crisis it will be much easier to find a physician who knows how to prescribe medications and utilize supplies to care for patients, than it will be to find those medications and supplies.

For some reason, it doesn't occur to most people, even preppers, that physicians are not stockpiling medications and supplies for others. For one, physicians are like other people in that most are possessed by the normalcy bias that “it can’t happen here." Those doctors only have basic supplies on hand for their own families. The physicians who recognize the crisis looming in our country may be better off than the rest of us, but they can’t logically finance drugs and supplies for everyone else, even if they know everyone’s personal medical needs and have the space.

So in this section of the blog I'll suggest items you will want to stockpile for your family.  Some items you may not even know how to use, and that is ok.  You are storing them as a form of insurance to have on hand in case you have an emergency situation where you can find a doctor to treat your condition.  You are merely storing supplies that s/he will need.

Links to related posts:
Hypothyroidism and TEOTWAWKI  


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