Adriaan P. C. C. Hopperus Buma’s research while affiliated with Nivel – Research for better care and other places

The authors of this chapter include specialists, many of whom have extensive deployment experience. The target group of this chapter, however, is not their fellow specialists, but the “junior” doctors, trying to help them find their way in the difficulties posed by an “adverse” environment. That junior doctor will be confronted by all imaginable ailments and injuries and should be a true generalist. As we’re all aware, even in medical school nowadays, there’s a tendency to make students choose the direction of their future work at an ever earlier stage, the opposite of what’s needed for a generalist.

Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide 3e follows its successful predecessors in providing a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Aimed at health professionals, Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide 3e encompasses problems brought about by local conflict or natural disasters. It covers preparation, organisation, logistics, treatment of major trauma and medical emergencies, and the special problems of delivering medicine in a hostile environment. This book will provide the reader with a mix of theory, opinion and practical advice to guide him through areas of conflicts, catastrophes and remote locations.