The Survey Results Are In

by James Hubbard, MD, MPH

Thank you for the wonderful response to last week’s survey. It will help me a great deal in focusing on what you’d most like to learn about.

As promised, here are the results.

1. What type of information would you like me to focus on most this year?

From this, it seems I have been going in the right direction, covering diseases in the blog and including advanced survival techniques in the blog, books and especially the training course.

I would just add a note that it’s important to get the basics down first, as I’m sure you’d agree. In an emergency, if the immediate threats to life are not corrected there may be no reason to do the advanced procedures. (That’s why I also cover some basics in nearly all my educational products.)

I’m interested to know more about what type of advanced information you want to learn, so I’ll be following up with a survey about that next week.

2. What topic would you like to learn most about this year?

This helps a lot. Thanks.

3. Which emergency-scenario setting is most interesting to you?

Interesting and a bit surprising. I thought the top answer would probably be short-term or long-term disasters (though I do see many people are interested in that too). Thanks for the insight.

Questions 4 and 5

For the last two questions, about what types of products you’d like me to create, you expressed interest in both readable materials and practical, retail-type products. You also said you’d like an online training course.

My first online training course is already available, along with four books. Stay tuned for more in 2015 that’s targeted to what you want.

Comments

If you added a comment in the survey, please know I appreciate it and am taking it into consideration.

A few people requested a book to pack for camping, etc. If that was you, please check out Living Ready Pocket Manual: First Aid.

Others said they wanted to learn more about caring for different types of cuts. Please consider my interactive e-book The Survival Doctor’s Guide to Wounds (also available as a downloadable, printable PDF). I don’t have a suturing class right now, but there are other ways to repair cuts (tape, glue, staples), and many wounds in a survival situation will heal better without sutures (due to the high risk of infection.)

Again, thanks for the many ideas. I plan to start working on them right away.

About the Author: James Hubbard, M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. James Hubbard is the best-selling author of five books, including his latest, The Survival Doctor's Complete Handbook. His expertise and down-to-earth style have made him one of the foremost survival medicine experts in the country. Through books; lectures; an online training course; and his popular website, TheSurvivalDoctor.com, Dr. Hubbard shares information about how to deal with medical problems when getting expert care is impossible. His evidence-based tips are a combination of modern medicine, makeshift treatments and Grandma’s home remedies.

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Schmura CCRN AWLS

I couldn’t agree more, as a flight nurse covering all of remote Alaska, nothing is more important than knowing the basics. Dr. Hubbard’s Survival Book is the best I’ve read. Even with having advanced training and advanced wilderness certifications, his book is an essential for me. If I’m hurt and have an untrained person with me, I’d want them saving me with the knowledge in his book. Keep up the great work.
- James Hubbard, MD, MPH
  
  Thank you.
Whisper

I am interested in learning more about alternatives to use for sedation. If I am an amateur and setting a bone for someone, I prefer they not be conscious. Even pulling a tooth can be traumatic if it’s your first time doing so. Whether I am the one pulling the tooth, setting the bone, etc or the one receiving it, I prefer to not be fully conscious. Can you help?
- James Hubbard, MD, MPH
  
  Other than a little drinking alcohol or an oral sedative (but not in combination) that’s about it. You’d never want to chance oversedating since that could be life-threatening.
Methane Creator

Minor accidents I feel comfortable with treating. It’s the stick in the eye, ripped off toenail, embedded schrapnel and bullet removal that I feel will be needed. Many different types of trauma that there may not be any medics around to assist. Treatment in a possible non-sterile environment and ways to keep patient calm without morphine or IV drips. I could keep asking/writing, but responders to horrific disasters always talk about the metal shard sticking out of someones skull or eye and all you can do is bandage it and wait for professional removal. Over sedation is serious, but so is knowing how much alcohol to consume without poisioning the victim.
- James Hubbard, MD, MPH
  
  True about the alcohol. If I didn’t make that clear, too much (more than an oz or two depending on size and tolerance), or giving more than a regular dose of a sedative would be oversedating also.
Dee

My concern is when to know to have someone vomit after suspected poisoning or when give other first aid. I’m learning how to do food grade charcoal, but knowing when to use it is another thing.
WolfBrother

You wrote:
Interesting and a bit surprising. I thought the top answer would
probably be short-term or long-term disasters (though I do see many
people are interested in that too). Thanks for the insight.
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When I see homesteading, everyday living, and emergencies I envision being able to handle everything except battle wounds at a post-Civil War – Pre-WWII environment. Ready access to higher care/drugs etc may or may not be immediately available. Think of out in the Boonies West Texas/New Mexico etc or Alaska.

So if you blend in (as advanced subjects) the hunting, STerm, and LTerm areas you will have a comprehensive training system.
- James Hubbard, MD, MPH
  
  Thanks.
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1. What type of information would you like me to focus on most this year?

2. What topic would you like to learn most about this year?

3. Which emergency-scenario setting is most interesting to you?

Questions 4 and 5

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About the Author: James Hubbard, M.D., M.P.H.

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