Expedition Medicine

Find interviews, tips, personal accounts, and more, on this field of medicine which focuses on providing medical support to expeditions in austere or isolated areas.


Doctoring Aboard an Arctic Expedition Ship

M. J. Hessert, DO, MPH, FAWM
August 15, 2022

Managing COVID and other illnesses at sea


High Altitude Flatus Expulsion

David Wilson, MDLara Phillips, MD
July 11, 2022

A pungent phenomenon examined


Covering Your Adventure

David L. Wilson, MS-IV
December 23, 2021

3 types of travel insurance and their purposes


Cowboy Coffee: Interview with Henderson McGinnis

David Wilson, MS-IV
August 1, 2021

The second in our series of interviews with ExpedMed practitioners


Cowboy Coffee: Interview with Lara Phillips

David Wilson, Medical Student
December 21, 2020

The first installment of a new interview series with expedition medicine practitioners