The field reference for the people who get there first.
And the help when they do.

Physician-built for adventure-medicine generalists. The person on the boat. The parent on the trail. The lifeguard before the medic. The surfer who got to the body first.

When the nearest ED is hours away, the first responder is often the only responder for the window that matters. Wound care. Drowning recognition. Marine envenomations. The first sixty seconds. Citation-anchored throughout. Designed for the dry bag, not the shelf.

We'll email you the moment the Field Guide is ready. Confirmation lands in your inbox within a few minutes.

Built on reefs. Backed by medicine.
— Why this exists

A field reference for the gap between incident and definitive care.

Adventure-medicine generalists work in a window the literature describes but the lineup doesn't always reach. The clinical evidence is in the journals; the field reality is on the boat, at the cabin, on the reef. Where those two worlds meet is where this guide lives.

Every protocol traces to peer-reviewed literature, Auerbach's Wilderness Medicine, ATLS, and Wilderness Medical Society practice guidelines. Every claim is cited inline. Every clinical decision is reviewed before publication. Built by a physician who works in the environments the protocols are written for.

It's the document I wish I had when I moved to Siargao, and now it's what I pack and keep within reach for every surf trip.

The notification list opens the founding cohort. The first hundred to sign up carry founding-cohort status — first access to future editions, early invitation when The Watch formalizes, and other recognition still being shaped. Quietly marked, durably held.

A surfer riding inside a glassy barrel, water-level perspective, evoking the remote breaks the Field Guide is designed for.
Monmouth County, New Jersey
— What's inside

The protocols you'll wish you had the last time it went wrong.

A working reference for the injuries that show up at remote breaks. Each protocol is short, scenario-led, citation-anchored, illustrated. Designed to print and carry, or to keep on the phone in airplane mode.

Sea urchin spine removal protocol illustration.
Sea urchin spine removal
First 60 seconds after serious reef injury protocol.
First 60 seconds
Drowning recognition protocol illustration.
Drowning recognition
Fishing hook removal protocol illustration.
Fishing hook removal
Hold-down physiology illustration.
Hold-down physiology
Stingray envenomation protocol illustration.
Stingray envenomation
Box jellyfish and marine sting protocol illustration.
Box jellyfish
Field Guide cover artwork.
+ 18 more protocols
26
Protocol pages
300+
Pages total
100%
Citation-anchored
1
Physician author
The Founding 100

The first hundred to show up are the founding cohort.

The first one hundred people to join the notification list carry founding-cohort status. What that recognition looks like is being designed deliberately, not retroactively. First access to subsequent Field Guide editions. Early invitation when The Watch formalizes. Other things still being shaped. Not a name on a page. Something durable.

It's a small thing and a real one. Like a backer credit in a film. Like an early line on a cap table. The Watch is built on the people who show up before there's anything to show up for. This is how the first hundred show up.

After the Founding 100 fills, signups continue. Everyone on the list still hears first when the Field Guide is ready. Founding-cohort status closes at 100. Everything else stays open.
— What happens next

Just the list. No commitment.

Join the list

Email only. No payment, no commitment. You can leave whenever.

Confirmation lands in your inbox

Within a few minutes. From Doc Surf. Save the address. Future Field Guide emails come from the same place.

A few short emails over the months ahead

Each one opens a piece of what's in the guide. Wound care. Drowning recognition. The first sixty seconds. What the field gets wrong. No upsells. No urgency theater.

When the Field Guide is ready, you're the first to hear

Subscribers see launch before public release. If you want a copy then, the option is there. If you don't, no follow-up.

Cloud Nine at sunrise — the kind of break the Field Guide is built for.
Sunrise at Old Cloud Nine Tower, 2018

Created by a licensed physician for educational purposes only. Not individualized medical advice. Every injury requires direct clinical assessment. No physician-patient relationship is established by reading the Field Guide or by joining this notification list.

See the full disclaimer.

— Where to start

Five ways in.

INTEL citations and protocol library
WATCH join the community we're building
KIT kit waitlist
GUIDE Field Guide waitlist
TRAIN course and training pathways