NPM 16: The Ultimate Prepper Medical System with Dr Prepper

Truly hard to believe we're at day 16 already. I'm rushing it to 17. Day 16 already. We have passed the halfway point, National Preparedness Month, and we are... This is a good idea, man. This is definitely a good idea. We have had some heavy hitters all month long. I'm not waving at you. I'm just centering my camera real quick. We've had some heavy hitters all month long. We did two interviews yesterday. You saw one. You'll see the next one tomorrow. with Derek from Prepper Press. We did the Urban Prepper yesterday. Today, folks, we have we got we got an amazing product, an amazing guy who's going to show it off. I met him at Prepper Camp and yeah, just just one of those people you talk to. You ever have that doctor as a kid growing up? It's funny that he is a doctor. Do you ever have that doctor as a kid growing up that like when you would go into his office, you'd feel like you were with a, you know, somebody who's maybe even in the family, that kind of level of sort of comfort. When I met Tom, that was kind of how I felt talking to him on our brief interview that we first did at Prepper Camp. Then he showed me his stack system, which to me is the ultimate Prepper medical system on the market. And that's what we're here to talk to you about today, because I don't think it gets any easier and I don't think it gets any more organized and coming from a guy whose medical situation is not the most organized. How you doing, Dr. Tom? Thanks so much for joining us, man. I'm doing great, brother. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate all those kind words. Yeah, man. It's all true. I remember sitting there listening to you talk in the booth and just going like, man, I miss having a doctor that makes me feel like this. I remember those days. Thank you. I guess my wife would say I have the gift of gab. And unfortunately, a lot of physicians, they have a problem with just being personable, bedside manner, like just talking to people like normal. And thankfully, I've never had that problem. Blame it on. Years of bartending or just having sort of a wide array of experiences through my life. But I enjoy connecting with people. And Prepper Camp was the ultimate opportunity to do that. I got to meet a lot of amazing people, including yourself. So thank you. Did you have a great time? Oh, it was, it was, it was cool. I mean, as you know, there was no shortage of sweating. Like I was drinking probably like 14 bottles of water a day, but we just happened to, you know, had that missed timing with that, that heat wave. But even so, I mean, everybody still had an awesome time. We made the best of it. We had misters and bottled water for everybody. But we connected with so many fantastic people in the preparedness community, which is one of my favorite groups as far as all the different hats that I wear. And I do a lot of different things, as you know, James. I teach a lot in the world of neuroscience. I'm an emergency medicine doc. I'm a medical director of an addiction treatment facility. But the preparedness community, I absolutely love. the people in the preparedness community, because it's that like-mindedness, it's that lack of naivety, you know, of just knowing that like anything could happen at any given moment, most of which are not even on our radar because we take those things for granted, except for those of us, you know, who. Are a little bit more situationally aware. Yeah, it's that, well, it's kind of the mentality of your system, like that sort of, if I want it and it doesn't exist, I'll make it exist, right? You were just talking about that before we went live, which is the crux of sort of the stack system. But it's that really is endemic in the prepping community. People like that. Yes. And you're right. And it takes a certain type of person to do that. Right. Like you. And that's that's what I tell people about our products is like our products are not like entry level. It's not like the boo boo kit, you know, that everybody should have. This is for people who have gone beyond that. and who are frustrated with the lack of what's available. And honestly, James, it wasn't even until I started putting this together, you know, because as a physician, I have access to this stuff. I have, you know, frequent access to this kind of stuff. And I built the product based on all of the different sort of like tools and tips and things. And we can talk about that in a moment. But as I was putting that together, I even realized like you need a medical license to buy a lot of this stuff in here. Like who would think that you would need a medical license to buy sterile saline, right? Like what are you going to do with sterile saline that's going to be so problematic? I actually didn't know that. Yeah. I mean, even for some of the needles and the suture packs and the staple guns, the medical vendors can't sell them to people unless they have a medical license. And so we had to establish relationships with all these companies to be able to bring these products that are typically only available you know, either via prescription or to somebody with a medical license and kind of integrate it in a way that we could offer it to everybody, including with the most. Important part, as you know, is the education. You know, you can have all the medical supplies in the world, just like you can have all the guns in the world. You can have all the food in the world. But if you don't know what you're doing with that stockpile, it's not going to serve you very well. You have to, and people in the world of preparedness and prepping, they learn that, you know, they learn that like, okay, I can't just have a bunch of stuff. I need the skill sets of knowing how to apply it, how to use it, how to store it effectively, maximize shelf life, all those sort of things. That's like the gas generator lesson. You know what I mean? If you only buy a gas generator for an emergency and you only ever turned it on or never turned it on, then you learn a lot of things about gas generators in a hurry. And the big difference is, you know, who cares about that if someone's uh bleeding severely then you don't have as much time to youtube a you know how to fix the generator and you know what i forgot to put oil in the generator uh just the other day real quick just you know as a reminder that like the importance of having medic you know i think sometimes even the average American sort of overlooks the importance of having medical preparedness, not just from the standpoint of disasters and emergencies. Like my son took off down this big Hill in our neighborhood, he 15 on a skateboard. And by the time I found him, he was like kind of crumpled up in a bloody, you know, road rash head nodded mess. And you know, the, one of the things that I like most about being medically prepared is the ability to, uh, Be calm. Because already in my head, I see him. I see the kinds of stuff that's wrong with him. And I know we can go back to the house. We can address all this stuff. We have the stuff that we need to address all this stuff. And that's sort of the unspoken piece of it, right? Is building up that confidence that you know where to go and what to get. Yeah. And I don't think anything does it better than what you have. Your system is kind of like a built-in confidence boost right off the bat. You know what I mean? You probably, it's many, many of our customers will say that like they've purchased peace of mind and, and, you know, and, and I think, you know, that's, that's, that's true for a lot of us in the prepping community of people that are outside of our community will often say like, Oh, isn't that exhausting? Like being, being afraid all the time. And I'm like, actually, it's kind of the opposite. Like I'm not afraid all the time because the things that I know that are cyclical in nature, the things that I know, it's just a matter of, of, you know, when not a matter of if, I don't stay up at night worrying because I've already thought through, I've already war game that I've, I've already not just, you know, built up the supplies, but actually put the skill sets behind it, you know, to know that I'm going to be okay to take care of myself and my family. So it is peace. It's bringing peace. And, and, and, you know, that's a, that's a big part in, in emergency medicine, you know, bringing order to chaos. That's our job. That's your whole thing. Yeah. That's our thing. Right. So, So we need to think about all of those things when we're thinking about medical preparedness. And so I built the stack system, not only to align with that, those of you who are watching this, who may have medical experience, like you're gonna notice some similarities with things that you've seen like crash carts, right? Like it has to be mobile. There's a hundred pounds of equipment in this thing. So it has to be on wheels so that you can move it, but it also has to be organized because if you just have a big rubber made tote and you're digging through that thing, trying to find, You know, your stop the bleed supplies, your airway supplies, like you're going to be in trouble, right? So everything is color coded. Everything from top to bottom is designed for a certain reason. It's built that way. And then what we do is not only do we break it down by the color of what type of medical emergency. So we have red for injury. We have gold for. The gold standard and emergency medicine, critical care. We have green for infection because of gangrene and the green color of pus. We have white for exposure because of white vapors, the white snowy tundra, white hot radiation. And then we have blue for kind of metabolic, which is kind of everything else in the big blue ocean or everything else under the big blue sky. Right away, you know, just just building sort of a color coding system to help people's brains make that make that affiliation between like, OK, I have this type of medical emergency. This is the you know, this is the treatment module that I need, you know, to to to to manage that problem. So and then what we did, I popped the video or the image of your stack systems from the website up so everybody can see a good up close. Excellent. Excellent. Just on the stack itself. Then once you start showing stuff off, we'll we'll get that out of the way. And then, you know, the other thing that I did, James, and this all started like me, me, me putting this kit together, as you had mentioned, part of it was because I couldn't find anything else like it out there on the market. And I scoured the market high and low, and I could not find anything that actually managed all the medical emergencies that people would be able to manage if they had this type of equipment, as well as the prescription medications within it, as well as the knowledge to go with it. Sure, sure. It's a lot, right? It is. It's a lot. And when I built it for myself, I didn't need the instructions. I built this because I wanted it for myself, especially after COVID, seeing. How crazy things were. I realized, I'm like, okay, as an emergency medicine physician, I want a high level of medical preparedness. So I was building these towers really for myself, but everybody else that would see one would say like, hey man, I need one of those. I've got to have. One of those And when I would explain that they don't have the education to put it to use, everybody was saying the same thing. They're like, dude, you can teach me or write it down. And so I took three and a half years and that's exactly what I did. I wrote it all down. So we provide you with a thousand pages of instruction. And these five textbooks are also color coded to match the treatment modules. And it just makes when a medical emergency arises. So as an emergency medicine physician, like I'm not going to be panicking. If I'm panicking, then everybody should be. Worried, right? Because I've been in medical emergencies, you know, for 10,000 hours in my life. And when you get to that 10,000 hour mark, that's whenever you start to develop, you know, that level of skill that you can just watch the person in motion and you can tell that they've done this many times before. For most people, particularly civilians, like when that medical emergency hits, The adrenaline dump is going to happen. You're going to sink from that intelligent prefrontal cortex down into your caveman brain because of fear. And you're not going to be able to think very quickly. So we've tried to mitigate all of that by making this as simple as possible to use. So let me give you a little demonstration. What I'll do is I'll pull the table back here. It's a beautiful system. Thank you, thank you. And I'm gonna tilt this down just a little bit so that the viewers can see a little bit more about what's going on on the table instead of me. So here I've got the stack of the five books that comes with it. These are broken down into the skill sets book, and this one goes with each of these books. So it's an integrated system, as you'll see. These books do not stand alone. Because they're constantly referring back and forth to each other, which is why instead of a stack of books this high, it's condensed to an efficient stack of books this high. Which is critical, man. The different types of. Exposure medical emergencies I can manage as well as the metabolic ones. So let's just do a little quick demo so people can see. So let's say I have an injury and we can pick any injury, a sprain, a strain, a fracture, a dislocation, a burn, a laceration. What I'm going to do is I'm going to disconnect the treatment module that is associated with injury. So It's a big stack tower that's designed to move around. It has the little luggage cart so that you can move it easily, but it's also designed to be broken down quickly so that if I have to run to the site of the emergency, I can climb through a cubbyhole, I can climb a ladder, like I can do whatever I might need to do with the treatment module containing all of the supplies. So once I get to the site of my emergency, I'm going to open this thing up. And it's going to have all the supplies that I would need as a physician to manage that medical emergency. With the education, we give our customers the ability to manage the same medical emergency. So I'm going to bring this in even a little bit closer just to kind of show people so they can see everything that you actually get in these kits. So load it. It's loaded. It's loaded. This whole thing. And another thing that people will notice is that there's not cheap junk in here. Everything in here is the same stuff that I use in the hospital on a daily basis. So right on the top here, we have everything that you need quick access to to stop the bleed. You have your North American Rescue Tourniquet, your hemostatic gauze, you have a Leatherman Raptor Shear. These are the only ones that are going to cut through those fireman pants, people. Beware of the cheap knockoffs, okay? Everything in here, again, this is what I keep on my persons whenever I'm working an ER shift, which is true of the majority of the stuff in here. It's the same exact stuff that we use in the ER. People will recognize brands like covidian and baxter and um and sam splints and north american rescue and all that great stuff i've got syringes to inject lidocaine to anesthetize wounds i have proparacaine to anesthetize eyes all of these prescription medications are customly prescribed to the buyer so you do a medical consult you get over 40 prescription medications that include everything like anesthetics like um there's that's the the injectable lidocaine this is the topical lidocaine There's everything that you need in here to inject different size needles. There's stuff for more superficial wounds that aren't going to require surgical repair, like Dermabond, the Steri-Strips, the adhesives to make it stick. This is epistaxis clamps for nosebleeds. Then you get down here, you have different types of suture packets to close wounds. You have the surgical instruments to do it. You get multiple staple guns. There's four staple guns in every kit. And it goes on and on, James, as you can see. You do need a staple remover when it comes time to take those out. There's a sling. There's a splint. But here's where, you know, people can acquire supplies. OK, right. And maybe they have a doctor. I love that fold out system, man. That's like a tackle box. And it makes it very, very tactical. And the idea here is that it's efficient, right? Like if I'm digging through trying to find this stuff, I'm going to have a hard time, but if it's all opened up and displayed right in front of me, it's going to be a lot easier for me. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to, I'm going to take my injury book. So let's say we'll say skin laceration, right? So if I have a skin laceration, I'm going to open up the textbook and they're all set up very easily and the same way to avoid confusion. So First few pages are just going to be a warning. This is not for when the ER is too busy or when you don't feel like going to see your doctor. A general reminder on how to use the system and then you get right into it. So table of contents, I would go right to, there's all the different types of injury. It's very easy to follow. You would go right to skin injuries, lacerations across the page 23, and then you're going to open up page 23. And when you get. There, you are going to learn all about the different types of lacerations. Every medical emergency is broken down into four categories. How to recognize and diagnose the condition. That's why you see lots of pictures. How to treat the condition. complications you have to watch for and what's the risk of not treating it. That's the biggest one for preppers because we know that limited resources over time, these resources are going to dry up. So you have to know, do I need to save that antibiotic for that pneumonia or do I use it for this ear infection that actually won't kill my kid? You know, all of that information is in here. We go through all the different types of sutures and how to place them. And then what you'll see, James, is like along the right side of the page, there's these bold all caps references. So this is referring you to medications and skill sets, the medications being in and supplies being in the treatment module and the skill set being in the next. Exactly. So so, you know, while we were on lacerations here. You know, we had a skill set. We were referred to skill set number eight for surgical wound closure because I have to close that laceration. So same thing. I'm going to open up this book. I'm going to go right to skill set number eight, which is surgical wound closure. I'm going to go straight to page 57. You have to excuse this because it was out in the heat, so it's sticking a little bit. When I get to page 57, I'm going to have every single thing I need, including the instructions, how to practice, how to throw sutures, how to get all the sutures to. Align on one side. If there wasn't a photograph for it, I did what I do with my medical students. I wrote those instructions out. Every one of these books refers back to the skill set book so that it's very much built for efficiency and it's very much built to kind of make this an entire comprehensive system that kind of integrates together. So I know people are probably excited to see what's in these. I'll just go through a few others. This is our critical care one. This has everything you need for airway management, including everything to do with surgical airway. These are all the different antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, antiparasitics. They're all neatly organized and categorized. And then you get into some of the big gun stuff, which includes everything from a CBRN chemical hazmat suit from Mira Safety to EpiPens to injectable steroids. There is everything in here to manage exposure to the heat, the cold, venomous creatures, antigens, allergens, anaphylaxis. As you can see, it's really quite a lot. And we know it's quite a lot. We know that's a lot of stuff to go over for people, which is why I'll tell everybody on the website, you can see me doing full breakdowns of every single kit and explaining how to use the stuff that's in it. It's an amazing system, man. There's no denying it. What I would like to challenge the audience to do is, run a make-believe situation. You don't even need another person to do it. You can do it by yourself in your time. If you know how to treat a laceration, then don't do that. But create a scenario, make up a scenario in your head go get your medical equipment, go get your medical books, figure out how quickly and time yourself, how quickly you're going to be able to learn how do, you know, maybe there's an eye injury and you got to apply a bandage or something along those lines to the eye, like figure out how long it will take you to do that. Because we just saw your system in action. Of course, there's going to be some reading and some learning that has to happen while, you know, while you're prep putting pressure on the wound and prepping and all that. But, um, I would, I would imagine that you're going to grab more than one book, You're not going to know exactly where to look in that book. I'm going off sort of me walking through this situation, right? I have one that I really lean on, the Prepper's Medical Handbook. It's a good, nice little book. But I have to imagine you're going to go to your medical resources. You're going to go grab your medical cash, your first aid kits and all that stuff. And hopefully everything you need's in there. Then you're going to have to find that, refer to it in the book. And hopefully it's not just what's wrong, but also like your black book does, the skill set, right? Yep. So that's exactly right. Test yourselves and see how long it takes. And that kind of wargaming, that's something that we do with medical students all the time. Right. Like, show me show me that you can do it on a practice dummy or a cadaver. And people should absolutely be doing that. And we give a lot of tips and advice on how to do that as well. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, one of the things nobody's ever going to organize and have access, not just organize the system, but have access to the things that are in your system. you know, without putting in a lot of effort. Right. I know some guys who have some of those things that you have, but, you know, we won't get into that. But the, yeah, the system itself. Oh, and by the way, folks, go to Dr. Medical, DrPrepperMedical.com. Is that right? DrPrepperMedical.com. That's right, DrPrepperMedical.com. Just D-R-PrepperMedical. There you go. You use the code PBN, you get 10% off on the website there, on the stack system or any other item you want to buy. Because one thing we didn't mention is you can get the curriculum separate. Correct. That's right. We sell the books separate. And we also, for people who maybe are medically educated and trained and they just want the antibiotics or they just want some other portion, we can customize the kits to meet people's needs. We have multiple kits below $ 500. We have multiple different versions of the stack system. People can see all of that on the website. So it's not just the whole thing. So if you want to get the books first, see what they're all about. The books themselves are a tremendous resource. full color pictures the whole thing um yeah you can head over to the website it's linked in the instagram so those of you are watching over at instagram and it's down in the show notes if you're listening to the podcast or watching the video so go ahead over there see what he has to offer dr tom i do appreciate you man i know you're a busy man doing all kinds of incredible things and uh I'm really happy we met. It was an awesome opportunity, and we hope to bring your system to the eyes of preppers all over the country. Thank you, sir. I agree completely. Super, super glad we met. Super glad that I was able to connect to all of your folks on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. and excited. You know, the prepping community, it's a great community. And, you know, I'm finding there's not a lot of the lone wolf preppers. People realize, like, we need to learn from each other. We need to support each other. We need to, you know, continue providing education for each other. And education is my big thing. So I'm always out there trying to do the same. I appreciate everything that you do in that world, James. It means a lot. And I'm a big fan. So keep doing what you're doing, brother, and I hope we continue to connect in good ways. Oh, we most certainly will have you on again to really get into one of these kits or all of these kits. I've got ideas. We'll talk offline. That sounds great, brother. I'm all for it. All right, folks. Day 16 just keeps getting better, man. Thank you guys for joining us today, and we'll see you tomorrow for Derek from Prepper Press, 9 a.m. Don't miss it. See you. When you're off the grid or working in real winter conditions, the basics matter more than anything. Heat Force Pro was designed around a simple idea, one product doing more than one job. 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