An excellent resource with some very interesting recommendations and suggestions that could positively affect your survival. Preppers come from all stations of life and bring differing resources to the mix. Whether you are looking to plan for yourself, your family or your neighborhood, you'll find excellent information in this book.

Thank you Netgalley for letting me read and review this book. It is a very informational and important read that talks about first aid. In Prepper’s Medical Handbook it goes over: learning first aid, how to handle diseases and allergies, finding water in a variety of environments, how to build shelters, and other survival tips.

This book has mostly simple advice and although I do wish it was more in depth, the information it does have is essential. It would be good for beginners, but also handy even for those more experienced. You never know how you might react in a stressful situation, so it would be good to have for quick reference. A big collection of survival hacks.

I found this book to be introductory and thin on details. It is not a medical handbook as the title suggests. There are some brief sections on first aid type techniques, but it does not go into any depth on the subject. Being as the title says it’s a medical handbook, I expected a lot more detailed medical information for those who are off-grid. I was hoping for something more like wilderness first aid course material.

The rest of the book offers a very brief overview of many subjects of interest to preppers. Again, none of the information is in-depth. None is more than a cursory introduction to the subject. I think the title should be changed to reflect that this is a basic look at what off-grid living can offer.

Some of the information is just too skimpy to be useful. Any prepper should have a knowledge of local plants and their edible and medicinal properties. There are plenty of excellent resources on this subject that offer better advice. This book relies on the universal edibility test, which is really for those who lack any local plant knowledge at all.

A check of the source material referenced in the back of the book yielded a bunch of web links. It seems like this book was put together using very basic information available on the internet, without a good solid background in survival or prepping skills. If you want a very brief introductory look at what skills may be needed, then this book will give you that. But, don’t rely on it for in-depth information. Use it as an overview only, then get other texts on the various subjects you find interesting.

This book is absolutely an invaluable resource for anyone either trying to live off the grid or preparing for an event that might take out what has become every day necessities in life. I hope the author writes more books so I can collect them.

Well - I am not entirely sure what I want to say about this book....

Prepper's Medical Handbook - I figured it was going to be something along the lines of "if you get XXX while doing XXX, you can use XXX in a medical emergency.." but no. That is not the premise of this book. I am going to admit to being a bit disappointed. Having a military background, many of the tips in this book make sense, but its not a true prepper's medical handbook. The sources are suspect, and the information is more general.

I think it has a good premise, but the title needs a change, there needs to be better checking of medical sources, and perhaps an updated version of the book in the future will address some of this.

Not one of my favorite reads of the year, but definitely kept me entertained for a few hours..

This is definitely not my normal reading fare, but given the current social/economic climate, I thought I’d check it out. I’m not a “prepper,” but I do like to prepare and want to be able to care for my family, should anything happen. I’d especially hoped that it would give good information regarding medicinal plants. But this is definitely more basic than I’d wanted.

If you, like me, want more in-depth info about herbal/survival medicine, this is not the book for you. If you have lived in a city with pharmacies, doctors, urgent cares, and hospitals all around you, and you are considering venturing out into the wilds (to live off the grid or even just get away for the weekend), you should probably check this book out.

I did appreciate the variety of shelter ideas (with drawings) and the multiple ways to gather water (with drawings). Also, the basic list of medicinal plants with their properties and usages is a good resource for anyone (though I’d suggest if you are really interested that you check out a book of local plants and their properties, since only two of the ones mentioned are found in my area).

I’d call this book good, but not great. It’s a handy resource for the very (VERY) basics. I’ll give it 3.5 out of 5 stars. Pick up a copy if you’re just beginning to trek into the countryside.

Thanks to BooksGoSocial and NetGalley for the digital copy of this book for review purposes. I was not required to give a positive review. All opinions are my very own! 🙂

I am a nurse, and I still learned a number of useful things from this book. Emma Nora did an excellent job in presenting and organizing the information. Great review of basic first aid skills and items that are good have on-hand anytime. I highly recommend her book. An amazing resource to have available for yourself and your family.

This is not a serious book of medical knowledge for long-term survival off-grid, although it begins that way. It is also stretched into a mishmash of info on building emergency shelters, keeping warm while lost, trapping game, and a host of survival related information, and some of which is nothing more than the author's favorite information. That's a lot of stuff that has nothing particular to do with medical prep. As such, the book is not nearly as informative and useful as single topic books which are what a serious reader really wants and needs.

I found the section on testing wild foods to be dangerously inadequate. Fundamental to foraging and wild food testing is a sound knowledge of botany and particularly the plants that would be found in your region. Ms Nora's preppers are not parachuted to an unknown island and asked to survive; they are in a known locale where systematic, botany-based systems for classifying plants that reduce risk. I imagine that a serious prepper would already own several regional foraging handbooks. The tasting testing protocol is interesting, but without basic botanical knowledge I am not convinced that it would be particularly protective.

Ms Nora is sincere but is not a very skilled writer. Her sentences are clear but the book could use better organization and subtitling. Ms Nora's editors should have advised her that her eclectic system of in-text references could be revised to be more complete and therefore more useful. It would also shield her from questions about copyright and plagiarism that plague summary books like these.

This is not a useful book to add to your library.

This is a great starter book for anyone who wants to learn how to survive an apocalypse or even just the next two-week power outage from a hurricane. Packed full of information, the book makes me realize how very many life skills I am lacking. Emma Nora has done the reading, the living, the practicing, and the appendix alone is a gold mine of links to more books that will help us learn how first aid, fire-starting, food preservation, guarding food stores against predators, building shelter, and a gazillion things most of us do not know. Most of us cannot even change a tire if stranded on a lonely road.

I meant to post a long, thoughtful review with a list of topics covered in this book, but suddenly I find it's Christmas Eve, and I will have to come back to this later with more details.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of this useful and informative and inspiring book on how to survive as our ancestors did before modern technology rendered us so dependent on others.

This book has mostly simple advice and although I do wish it was more in depth, the information it does have is essential. It would be good for beginners, but also handy even for those more experienced. You never know how you might react in a stressful situation, so it would be good to have for quick reference.

it was very informative. I have read a lot of prepper medical books and this gave me more information that i had not previously not known. I would recommend to anyone who is just starting out preppeing or any one who has been perppeing for a long time.

For what I thought was going to be a medical prep book this lacked a lot for me. Now to be completely honest I am an RN and have camped all of my life so I had a knowledge base coming in to this. Having said that there was absolutely nothing new to me or I would think a lot of people as far as the medical standpoint. I was hoping for some advanced techniques or ideas to help if I am with someone out with no medical access as most peepers are preparing for no one to be able to help. I do think there were some good points and lots of good diagrams but would not recommend this to anyone with any basic first aid knowledge already.

I'm not necessarily a prepper. As a resident of a hurricane-prone area, I consider this information storm prep and essential for any resident of this area. The information is clear, concise, and laid out well making it a perfect handbook to refer to as needed. As mentioned in another review, medical is only a part of this so the name is not necessarily apt. However, it’s all useful and the medical information is handy on a day-to-day basis, not just in crisis mode. I highly recommend this for anyone who travels, camps, lives in a disaster-prone area, or well, just about anyone.

Very concise information. Lots of common situations that may be fixed without a doctor. However the author does give many examples of when a doctor is needed and what to look for when one is. Illustrations are easy to follow and what i thought was hard to explain wasnt as I read circumstances and ways to survive a disaster as best as anyone can.

I received this book for free for an honest review from netgalley # netgalley

So much great info. Great illustration too.

This was an excellent, informative read. A book to have in your possession for life’s mishaps, accidents and basic unknowns. My favorite part of this book was the building of the first aid kit. Seems simple right? But to sit and foresee everything that could go wrong and prepare for that was great. Also, making sure that not only you but your whole family knows what to do in case of an emergency and knows their way around the first aid kit. I didn’t even know my way around the kit until this book! There is an excellent walk-through of CPR explained really precisely that I also appreciate. I would give this book as presents to me people. So great. Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this.

Prepper's Medical Handbook is a complete guide guide to surviving in the wilderness.

If you have ever worried about how you might cope in a future catastrophe, or simply need help surviving a camping trip, this book is for you.

It's a comprehensive guide on survival skills such as how to fend off predators, which plants are edible, how to build a shelter, how to ensure water is safe to drink, and how to hunt animals. The most important part is the information regarding first aid, including CPR, which is incredibly important for anyone to read.

I'm not a prepper, and I don't really like camping, but I found this to be a fascinating read.

Many thanks to Emma Nora, NetGalley, and Books Go Social for this copy.

After everything that has gone on with the Covid pandemic and shortages of items, this book is extremely helpful and timely. I learned a great deal about necessary first aid items to have on hand and a lot about first aid that I never know. The author offers practical, helpful tips that everyone should know and learn, even if you don’t live off the grid. Basic first aid knowledge can save your life or someone else’s. Highly recommend this book! Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy!

I'm nowhere close to a prepper, but figured that it couldn't hurt to increase my knowledge of what to do in the event of a catastrophe. Turns out, this book was kind of a mixed bag.

For the good points, a range of practical and technical information is offered throughout the book. There are chapters on building a first aid kit, knowing your limits and when to call for help, instructions for managing a variety of issues that can arise, dealing with a range of diseases, getting access to safe, drinkable water, getting food (including hunting and building snares/traps), how to manage predators, building shelters for a variety of weather conditions, staying warm, and finding plants that are edible or can be used as medicines. While this book isn't going to make me capable of off-grid living, it definitely gives me somewhere to start if something major happens that interrupts our standard way of life, and left me with a lot to think about.

However, there were some definite downsides. Based on the title, I was expecting there to be a lot more of a focus on the medical aspect of the prepping lifestyle. But when I read, it wound up being less than half of the actual book. And I was incredibly disappointed to see that WebMD was used as a source multiple times - this is one of those sites that any credible researcher knows to avoid like the plague (no pun intended). While the author was clearly speaking to an audience that wasn't trained in first aid, she seemed to make assumptions that we were at times, such as by not defining the "recovery position," or "RICE" method, which are referred to more than once without any sort of explanation as to what they are. And the book clearly needed some serious editing - there are spelling and grammatical errors galore, which made it really difficult for me to not only focus on what was being said, but also to view the author as any kind of authority or expert. It almost felt as though it wasn't edited at all, and at times, it was outright confusing as to what the author was even trying to say. But most concerning, when she is talking about first aid or medical care, I want to trust that someone knows what they're talking about. Mixing up menthol as methanol (wood alcohol) can make a huge difference in someone's health and well-being. Finally, some of the methods, such as making shelters and building traps, were very difficult to follow.

This book works as more of an intro to the idea of prepping, and for me personally, would springboard me towards reading more comprehensive, well-edited, and easier to understand books on the topic if it was something I was more likely to follow through on.