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© 1983 Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom

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Planning for Armageddon*


J. Stuart Horner

District Medical Officer Croydon


Dr J. S. Horner, DMO, Taberner House, Park Lane, Croydon CR9 3BT

This paper emphasizes the responsibility of community physicians for planning of health services including disaster planning. Present advice for contingency planning in the event of a nuclear attack is reviewed in the light of the findings of the BMA working party report and found to be wholly unrealistic. Community Physicians who survive a nuclear holocaust will still have a continuing responsibility for the health of survivors in their communities and possible models on which planning and training for such situations could be undertaken are outlined. It is argued that a fundamental reappraisal of the role of medical practitioners in such situations will be essential.


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