Expert review of New Where There Is No Doctor Chapter 21 (First Aid)
Unpublished.
© 2012-2016 A.G. Keller, Roger Benham, Zoë Williams, and Anne Farbman CC BY-SA.
Outline
In 2012 I was asked to review a proposed rewrite of Where There Is No Doctor, the world's most-used first-aid book. Street medics don't work alone, so I reached out and a team of my favorite medics assembled to do the job. We argued a lot about the chapter. I organized our opinions into the report below. The publisher of Where There Is No Doctor found it useful. We found our conversation and the resulting document to be a good challenge to how we imagine and teach first aid.
Download PDF of 40-page expert review: streetmedic-expertreview.pdf (0.3 MB).
| 1 Executive Summary | 2 |
| 2 Questions | 3 |
| 3 New approach | 4 |
| 3.1 Audience | |
| 3.2 Recommend training | |
| 3.3 Training manual or handbook? | |
| 3.4 "Back to the drawing board" (chapter emphasis) | |
| 3.5 Education for critical consciousness | |
| 3.6 Finding further information | |
| 4 First Aid chapter | 16 |
| 5 Medications section | 28 |
| 6 Emerging trends in the Western US | 32 |
| A The Kid You Want | 34 |
| B Who we are | 40 |
The material in this review was used to develop Hesperian Foundation's New Where There Is No Doctor, Chapter 21: First Aid. Follow the link to see the entire chapter on their website.
