When emergencies happen in remote settings, field researchers can be left with little recourse. Erik Vance meets a man trying to change that.
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Erik Vance is a freelance writer in Berkeley, California.
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Vance, E. Profile: The field medic. Nature 466, 22–23 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466022a
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