title: The Doom and Bloom Survival Medicine Handbook: Keep your Loved Ones Healthy in Every Disaster, from Wildfires to a Complete Societal Collapse
author: Joseph Alton
description: ABOUT JOSEPH ALTON, M.D. AND AMY ALTON, A.R.N.P. Joseph Alton practiced as a board-certified Obstetrician and Pelvic Surgeon for more than 25 years before retiring to devote his efforts to preparing your family medically for any scenario. He has been a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American College of Surgeons for many years, served as department chairman at local hospitals and as an adjunct professor at local university nursing schools. He has been a speaker at various survival and preparedness conferences on the subject of medical readiness in austere times. A member of MENSA, Dr. Alton collects medical books from the 19th century to gain insight on off-the-grid medical protocols. Amy Alton is an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner and a Certified Nurse-Midwife. She has had years of experience working in large teaching institutions as well as smaller, family-oriented hospitals. Amy has extensive medicinal herb and vegetable gardens and works to include natural remedies into her strategies. Dr. and Ms. Alton are both Master Gardeners for their state. They also are devoted aqua culturists (currently raising tilapia) and aquaponic, raised bed and container gardening experts. Additionally, they are contributors to magazines like Survivalist and Backwoods Home. As Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy, they host a blog and radio program under the Doom and Bloom label. Dr. and Ms. Alton are firm believers that, to remain healthy in hard times, we must use all the tools at our disposal. Their goal is to promote integrated medicine; in this way, their readers will have the most options to keep their loved ones healthy in a disaster or collapse situation.
zlib_text: A precious rescue...
  Dr. Maddie Haddon doesn’t think twice before running into Wildfire Island’s gold mine to save a life.
  But another rockfall leaves Maddie trapped inside—and this time it’s her turn to be saved…
  Emergency medic Josh Campbell is used to working under pressure, but when he discovers that his
  latest call is to rescue his ex-wife, who is on the brink of labor, the stakes are higher than ever! Can
  Josh save Maddie and her baby…and heal their broken marriage, too?
  
  Wildfire Island Docs
  Welcome to Paradise!
  Meet the small but dedicated team of medics who service the remote Pacific Wildfire Island.
  In this idyllic setting, relationships are rekindled, passions are stirred and bonds that will last a
  lifetime are forged in the tropical heat...
  But there’s also a darker side to paradise. Secrets, lies and greed amid the Lockhart family threaten
  the community, and the team find themselves fighting to save more than the lives of their patients—
  they must band together to fight fo