Expedition medicine, i.e., being the "team doc" on an Everest expedition, or the doctor on a big Boy Scout outing, is what many associate with being a wilderness medicine physician, but wilderness medicine also encompasses other areas. It is a discipline that, if learned well, allows a medical caregiver to deal with a given situation in an international setting (where either resources, language, or culture limit the caregiver), being the doctor at a typical American sporting event or a concert, delivering first aid in an airplane or cruise ship in the Caribbean, assisting an injured person at a ski resort in Vail, or even working in a rural emergency department in New Mexico.

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