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Prepping for Healthcare Shortages

• Mind4Survival

Health care is "the organized provision of medical care to individuals or a community." It is clear from reading that definition just how much may go wrong when a link in the intricate and lengthy medical supply chain breaks.  Here's how to prepare for times when health and medical care are unavailable or overwhelmed.

Shortages in the medical system can happen for many different reasons.  Consider the vast array of raw materials needed to produce medicines, medical supplies, and specialized equipment. It becomes obvious that any malfunction or disruption in the supply of resources (or employees) can have a significant impact on large portions of the population and have negative outcomes.

Without forgetting the issues caused by the COVID-19 scare and all the measures put in place by governments worldwide to contain it, there's currently a whole list of real and present threats from the economy, geopolitics, and social unrest to emergency care, surgery, and intensive care. And that's not even mentioning other potential Black Swans.

Healthcare and Medicine Have Changed a Lot During the Last Half-centuryDoctors medical bag

My grandparents were considerably more knowledgeable and resourceful than my parents in dealing with medical issues, at least the most common and frequent ones. My folks still know a lot more than my generation ("X"), which, not by coincidence, is the first generation of true healthcare consumers. We shop for health care as we shop for retail goods and services, and newer generations aren't much different.


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