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  • SURVIVAL MEDICINE 101 Live Workshop with Doc Cindy Tuition only $365/person for 3 full days of instruction (9-4:30 daily) with Doc Cindy 2013 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE  Friday-Sunday, July 26-28, 2013 (In Atwater, near...

    Survival Medicine 101

    SURVIVAL MEDICINE 101 Live Workshop with Doc Cindy Tuition only $365/person for 3 full days of instruction (9-4:30 daily) with Doc Cindy 2013 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE  Friday-Sunday, July 26-28, 2013 (In Atwater, near...

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  • The best plaster casting material I have found that anyone can purchase online is the brand Gypsona, available through Amazon and elsewhere.  For adult-size arm splints and casts, 3″ plaster rolls...

    Tip of the Week: Casting material – what to get and where

    The best plaster casting material I have found that anyone can purchase online is the brand Gypsona, available through Amazon and elsewhere.  For adult-size arm splints and casts, 3″ plaster rolls...

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  • The best suture material I have found that anyone can purchase online is the brand Unify, available through Amazon and elsewhere.  For suturing of skin wounds, the 3-0 and 4-0...

    Tip of the Week: Suture material – what to get and where

    The best suture material I have found that anyone can purchase online is the brand Unify, available through Amazon and elsewhere.  For suturing of skin wounds, the 3-0 and 4-0...

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  • I’d forgotten about this video but thought you all might enjoy it.  Sound effects provided by yours truly, on helium. - Doc Cindy  

    Cute video on Doc Cindy’s other book

    I’d forgotten about this video but thought you all might enjoy it.  Sound effects provided by yours truly, on helium. - Doc Cindy  

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  •  Below is a listing with links to Dr. Koelker’s articles on SurvivalBlog Essential Medical Skills to Acquire – Part 1: Introduction, by Cynthia J. Koelker, MD   Essential Medical Skills to...

    Doc Cindy on SurvivalBlog

     Below is a listing with links to Dr. Koelker’s articles on SurvivalBlog Essential Medical Skills to Acquire – Part 1: Introduction, by Cynthia J. Koelker, MD   Essential Medical Skills to...

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  • Each week Doc Cindy offers a quick tip for medical prepping in written or recorded format. Check back often for new entries.  TO ACCESS ALL Tips of the Week, CLICK HERE.

    Tip of the Week

    Each week Doc Cindy offers a quick tip for medical prepping in written or recorded format. Check back often for new entries.  TO ACCESS ALL Tips of the Week, CLICK HERE.

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  • Doctors, nurses, dentists, chiropracters, EMTs, RNs, and other health professionals. Several of you have expressed an interest in a professionals-only site, to address issues of medical preparedness possibly unsuited to...

    Medical Professionals – How to Join

    Doctors, nurses, dentists, chiropracters, EMTs, RNs, and other health professionals. Several of you have expressed an interest in a professionals-only site, to address issues of medical preparedness possibly unsuited to...

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  • Ever wonder what your fellow preppers are thinking? Have they had the same questions as you, perhaps? CLICK HERE to read what others are saying . . . and then...

    Question of the Week

    Ever wonder what your fellow preppers are thinking? Have they had the same questions as you, perhaps? CLICK HERE to read what others are saying . . . and then...

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  • Carbohydrates – we really love them, don’t we? We just don’t like what they do to us, especially when they’re consumed with abandon.  However, if food were hard to come...

    Carbohydrates and Companion Planting

    Carbohydrates – we really love them, don’t we? We just don’t like what they do to us, especially when they’re consumed with abandon.  However, if food were hard to come...

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  • This article begins a series on making the most of over-the-counter drugs. Usually medical questions begin with, “I have such and such a problem – what can I do for...

    Making the most of OTC meds – meclizine

    This article begins a series on making the most of over-the-counter drugs. Usually medical questions begin with, “I have such and such a problem – what can I do for...

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