La Princessa de Todo was certified last month, and I’m renewing my certs this spring.

I wonder how different the world would be if every 18+ American had not only 1st Aid & CPR certs, but the babysitter’s cert + “what to do in an emergency” cert (I forget what they are called, and the wireless is too wonky to go look.)

And I think every American should have in their self-sufficiency locker:

Where There Is No Doctor

Where There Is No Doctor
A village health care handbook
by David Werner with Carol Thuman and Jane Maxwell
Updated 2006
512 pages, illustrated
English ed. ISBN: 0-942364-15-5

Hesperian’s classic manual, Where There Is No Doctor, is perhaps the most widely-used health care manual for health workers, clinicians, and others involved in primary health care delivery and health promotion programs around the world. With millions of copies in print in more than 75 languages, the manual provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent common diseases. Special attention is focused on mutrition, infection and disease prevention, and diagnostic techniques as primary ways to prevent and treat health problems.