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    Ordered.

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    Survival, Disaster and Tactical Medicine Book (Electronic version)

    Colour Ebook Version now available for £4.99 see link below
    http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/su...icine/15719267

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    Your book came today. Looks pretty good!

    A few points for the next edition:

    On the binding, the title is in VERY SMALL print... smaller than anything else in the book - it should be large.

    Just skimming through - I liked your break down of this Abx for this type of infection. Seems like a lot of Abx's though. I guess so you can use what you have. Hate to stockpile that many. What I didn't see is take for how long.... maybe it was in the text, but just from the charts.

    I saw one section on recommended health suggestions and noted ETOH intake... 21 units for a male... I think of a "unit" as a one ounce "shot" of hard alcohol or one beer. That many in a day would have you eating sidewalk... I'm guessing you did not mean in a day? maybe a week? or a month? also what is "unit"? Just little things like that - units and time are important.

    Overall, very impressive book! - thanks for telling us about it!

    thanks,

    -t
    Last edited by tangent; 05-18-11 at 10:39.

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    Hi

    Thanks for your comments, ill take them all on board. If anybody else has a copy please comment always looking too improve the text.

    You are right it should state 14/21 units a week. I had probably incorrectly assumed the measurement was international but may well be UK only.

    http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/tips-and-tools/drink-diary/

    "(3-4 alcohol units a day (equivalent to a pint and a half of 4% beer) and a woman should not regularly exceed 2-3 units a day (equivalent to a 175ml glass of 13% wine)"

    Would you mind putting a ratting and review on the Lulu site please.

    A few earlier copies went out without page numbers this has now been fixed, sorry if you got one of those.

    THanks

    Chris

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    I got a copy with page numbers.

    4% beer? interesting....

    Scratching my brain here, but I remember this is often state based, I think 2.6% vs 6% and one is OK to sell to a 18yo while the other is ok to sell to 21yo+ but it depends on the state. Thing is, they are basically identical. One is by weight, the other by volume. Idiotic gvmt regs....



    Yeah, I'll leave you a good reply on Lulu

    Thanks for writing this!

    -t
    Last edited by tangent; 05-18-11 at 13:36.

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    Review:

    I got my copy yesterday and am very impressed with it! Yes, it needs a few tweaks, but it will teach you a lot. So far I have just glanced through it and in that brief review I learned a few things. I've been in the biz. There is valuable information in this text and I recommend it to anyone. It is both useful to the novice, but the experienced medic will also gain helpful insights from it. Recommended!

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    On Beer... I unfortunately do not have a can of it on hand, but I think they are 8 fluid ounces. Maybe it's 10 or 12. I believe there are also 14-16oz cans that are marketed as "tall" cans - hay this is the US and we are weird here... We also are generally not metric.

    I have a bottle and it reads 12 fluid ounces.

    I also have an "oil can" of Fosters which is an AU beer, but I think brewed in the US, that is not your average can... (It's HUGE) and reads: 25.4 fluid ounces, 750 ml, one pint 9.4 Fl OZ

    Cans of Foster are not your normal beer in this country - normal cans are more like a soda size can. These are tall and wide - AND TASTY!

    Just FYI!

    -t
    Last edited by tangent; 05-18-11 at 13:47.

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