Where There Is No Doctor

Where there is no doctor: a village health care handbook by David Werner; with Carol Thuman and Jane Maxwell-Rev. ed

This handbook has been written primarily for those who live far from medical centers, in places where there is no doctor. But even where there are doctors, people can and should take the lead in their own health care. So this book is for everyone who cares. It has been written in the belief that:

1. Health care is not only everyone’s right, but everyone’s responsibility.
2. Informed self-care should be the main goal of any health program
   or activity.
3. Ordinary people provided with clear, simple information can prevent and
   treat most common health problems in their own homes—earlier, cheaper,
   and often better than can doctors.
4. Medical knowledge should not be the guarded secret of a select few, but
   should be freely shared by everyone.
5. People with little formal education can be trusted as much as those with a
   lot. And they are just as smart.
6. Basic health care should not be delivered, but encouraged.