Their mission: To put a medically prepared person in every family for any disaster.

Joe Alton, M.D. is a retired but actively licensed M.D. and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (Ret.) and Life Fellow of the American College of OB/GYN. Amy Alton, A.R.N.P. is an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nurse Midwife. She is an advocate of herbal remedies and essential oils and has one of the largest medicinal gardens in the state of Florida. She is also the owner of Alton First Aid products, designer of quality, often one-of-a-kind medical kits for off-grid scenarios at her store at doomandbloom.net.

Together, they’re the authors of the 2017 Book Excellence Award 1st Place Winner and Amazon bestseller in Survival Skills and Safety/First Aid “The Survival Medicine Handbook”, the 2020 Book Excellence Award 1st Place winner “Alton’s Antibiotics and Infectious Disease: The Layman’s Guide to Available Antibacterials in Austere Settings”, the 2014 NY Times bestseller “The Ebola Survival Handbook”, and the Amazon bestsellers “Alton’s Pandemic Preparedness Guide”, “The Zika Virus Handbook”, “The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide”, and others.

They are well-known speakers, podcasters, and YouTubers, as well as contributors to several leading survival/homesteading magazines like American Survival Guide, Survivor’s Edge, Off Grid Recoil, Prepper Survival Guide, and Backwoods Home. Their website at Doomandbloom.net has won the Reader’s Choice Award from survivaltop50.com five years running as the highest quality content for a survival site on the web. The Doom and Bloom™ Survival Medicine Hour podcast can be found at www.BlogTalkradio.com. Their YouTube channel has more than 250 videos on medical preparedness. They are active in social media on Facebook and MeWe at their Groups “Survival Medicine” as well as their doomandbloom(tm) page.