Dr. Disaster's Guide to Surviving Everything: Essential Advice for Any Situation Life Throws Your Way
Dr. Disaster's Guide to Surviving Everything: Essential Advice for Any Situation Life Throws Your Way book cover

Dr. Disaster's Guide to Surviving Everything: Essential Advice for Any Situation Life Throws Your Way

Hardcover – April 13, 2021

Price
$14.49
Format
Hardcover
Pages
240
Publisher
Mariner Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0358494805
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.79 x 8.25 inches
Weight
15.3 ounces

Description

About the Author John E. Torres, MD , is the NBC News/MSNBC senior medical correspondent and an emergency room physician. A U.S. Air Force veteran and retired Colonel who completed a tour of duty in Iraq in 2004, Torres splits his time between Colorado and New York City.

Features & Highlights

  • A practical, all-encompassing guide to disaster preparedness, from avalanches and blackouts to pandemics and wildfires.
  • An emergency room physician and U.S. Air Force veteran, Dr. Torres, aka “Dr. Disaster,” has spent his career on the front lines, saving lives in all sorts of disasters. He’s seen it all, from late nights treating patients in the ER to early mornings covering the country’s latest crisis on NBC/MSNBC as senior medical correspondent. His entire job is to think about the best practices in an emergency—and now he’s sharing this hard-won knowledge with you.
  • In
  • Dr. Disaster’s Guide to Surviving Everything
  • , Dr. Torres shares the essential advice you need to survive any worst-case scenario, from natural disasters like lightning strikes, hurricanes, and wildlife encounters, to human-made ones like terrorist attacks and active-shooter situations. As fun to read as it is informative, this book is full of hacks that could save your life, such as:
  • How to prep your home for any emergency
  • How to prep your home for any emergency
  • Why you should never use a landline during a thunderstorm
  • Why you should never use a landline during a thunderstorm
  • The safest place to sit on an airplane
  • The safest place to sit on an airplane
  • How to start a fire with common household items
  • How to start a fire with common household items
  • The first thing you should do every time you enter a shopping mall
  • The first thing you should do every time you enter a shopping mall
  • With this book in your pocket, you will be ready for whatever the future holds.

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Only for those with better than 20/20 vision.

Good reference. Good information. BUT Print SO astonishingly small I can only read with a magnifying glass and my reading glasses.
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Useful and well-written

Prefer reading non-fiction--and this book is full of useful facts. And an additional positive is that the book is well-written.
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All inclusive

My son-in-law loved this! He's the type that wants to be prepared for anything.
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Amazing read!

Amazing read! Easy to read, understand, implement, and remember!
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Emergency solutions

This book has some great ideas on what to do in emergency situations. I bought to have a great reference book on hand.