{"id":1395,"date":"2014-11-10T20:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T01:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2014-11-10T20:59:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T01:59:55","slug":"how-to-care-for-wounds-when-the-medical-system-has-collapsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"How to Care For Wounds When the Medical System Has Collapsed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/how-to-care-for-wounds-when-the-medical-system-has-collapsed\/\">How to Care For Wounds When the Medical System Has Collapsed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;\">In my opinion, our medical system will be one of the first to collapse during a major catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;\">We have a shortage of primary care doctors in the U.S., a shortage of emergency rooms, a shortage of nurses, and most hospitals have gone to a \u201cjust in time\u201d ordering system, where they stock two to three day\u2019s supplies vs. several weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;\">Plus our hospitals are utterly dependent on electricity, although the all have backup diesel generators \u2013 but what happens when the diesel tanks are empty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;\">Furthermore, especially in an outbreak of contagious disease, many hospital personel will just not show up, be injured, or caring for ill or injured family members at home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;\">I can tell you from personal experience, our national medical disaster preparedness is a sad joke. Think Katrina, but ten times worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Care For Wounds When the Medical System Has Collapsed. In my opinion, our medical system will be one of the first to collapse during a major catastrophe. We have a shortage of primary care doctors in the U.S., a shortage of emergency rooms, a shortage of nurses, and most hospitals have gone to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[395,1022,1023],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-medical-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}