Biomedical subjects

Paul M Morton

Publications and source records attributed to Paul M Morton.

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PubMed2004

Wilderness survival.

This introduction to wilderness survival discusses basic survival rules and psychology, essential equipment, and selected survival skills, including shelter building, fire starting, water acquisition, signaling, and navigation. Among the litany of other survival topics in the literature, these skills are the most important. An effort has been made to concentrate on the skills and lessons that are simple, straightforward, and most easily used in a wilderness emergency. The purpose is to help readers to learn how to survive with the least amount of pain and the greatest possibility of success.

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PubMed2004

Wilderness medicine education for the physician.

As more Americans venture into the wilderness, physicians will be called upon to provide care in the backcountry or austere setting. Additionally, more isolated regions of the world are becoming accessible for trekking and mountaineering. These facts imply a higher rate of injuries and medical problems within a distinct spectrum of disease that are best treated by the well-prepared and continuously educated physician. This article discusses the educational resources that are currently available for physicians to meet these needs in the United States.

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