‘Why Med Matters’
You’re on the range, your pistol is oiled up – good to go, you’re in your favourite Team Tango shirt, a full Med-kit on your belt kit, but with medical knowledge not extending beyond “someone should probably call someone.” Fantastic. Now imagine something goes wrong. This is why we’re running this edition in the blog series.
The firearms world loves gear. Optics, holsters, the newest tacticool multitool that also works as a bottle opener. I get it. Here at Team Tango we love gear too. However, if something bad happens at the range or in normal life, your medical skills matter more than the extra split second you can get with your new mod you’ve given your pistol.
Learning how to apply a tourniquet isn’t as fun as watching Dan mock Mitch speak Thai on the latest react video, but it’s a skill that could keep you (or a friend) alive to enjoy another episode.
In Thailand, everyday life gives you more opportunities for injury than Bangkok gives you places to buy iced coffee.
Here’s a short list of things that don’t care how good you are on the range:
•Heatstroke
•Traffic
•Electricity
•Animals (I swear everything here wants to bite you)
The point is, medical knowledge isn’t just for the paramedics. It’s for daily life in Thailand. It’s for the range, it’s for your family, it’s for the time the construction worker decides flip-flops are a good choice of footwear to dig up the road.
Medical skills help you protect the people you care about. The problem is, most people think they already know how to provide first response emergency care. I hate to break it to you, what you learnt 10 years ago in high school doesn’t cut it, skill fade is massive in the medical field.
Proper medical knowledge isn’t scary, and it isn’t complicated—it just requires someone to teach it properly. Preferably someone who has experience, structure, and won’t tell you to “just walk it off.”
You train with firearms to protect yourself and others. So why not train the one thing guaranteed to save lives in ANY emergency. Medical skills turn ordinary people into everyday lifesavers. And Thailand needs more of those. So come join us in January, learn something that might one day keep someone alive.
Until next time, Mitch.