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Originally Posted by Raellus
This is something that I was working on during a discussion of late war demographics.
https://forum.juhlin.com/showthread....t=demographics
I'm not sure how interesting these are, but here they are.
The Country Veterinarian
This itinerant vet serviced a couple of Polish farming collectives before the war. Although she has no formal training in medicine for humans, many of her veterinary skills can still be applied to treating people- she can set a broken bone, deliver a baby, and perform minor surgery, for example.
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Former civil defense specialist Cresson Kearny wrote in his book Nuclear Survival Skills that you could find large amount of antibiotics from animal farms after nuclear attacks.
Vets can easily treat humans in most injuries or illnesses. If you travel in India, its not uncommon that rural areas that in during nighttime and weekends “local doctor on duty” is veterinarian.
In Finland during World War 2 many physicians in frontline duty were medical students. There simply weren’t enough “real doctors” even less you could find “real surgeons” to operate wounded soldiers. Systems worked quite well and those who served in both German and Finnish armed forces told that medical treatment for wounded was better in Finland – despite the fact that Germany had more doctors and hospitals. In Finland idea was to operate wounded near frontlines and in Germany they were eager to evacuate wounded to nearest military or civilian hospital.
In Baltic states local anticommunist partisans didn’t have access to hospitals. Most wounded were treated by local nurses, who provided surgical operations in primitive conditions.
Medical care after nuclear war is problematic. Most hospitals are located in urban areas and many facilities and their staff are destroyed in nuclear attacks and in rioting and looting.
There are no more universities to train doctors. Few years after nuclear strikes many people will get help from feldsher. Learning on the job and reading old manuals will teach you necessary skills. Some are former paramedics, nurses or even dentist – some are just smart people trying to help other people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldsher