CultureShock! Travel Safe

You want to go to some less-travelled country—Zambia, for example—but you don’t know what vaccinations are required, much less what health hazards may wait you there. Your friends are planning a trip to Tibet, but you’re worried about how to handle the thinner air up there. You’re travelling with your children for the first time, and you’re not sure how to handle it. CultureShock! Travel Safe gives you all the information you’ll need to keep yourself and your family and friends safe and healthy while travelling. The true travel stories included illustrate the common mistakes travellers make when it comes to keeping healthy while travelling. Covering everything from getting medical travel insurance, packing a medical kit and performing CPR to the best way to handle children on a long flight and what vaccinations they will need before travelling, CultureShock! Travel Safe is the best travelling companion you’ll ever need.


Dr Paul E. Zakowich is a board certified specialist in Internal Medicine practising in the Republic of Singapore. He was a chief medical coordinator of AEA, International, an international medical assistance company with an extensive network of medical alarm centres throughout Asia, and in Australia, and the United States. He has helped managed numerous medical evacuations within South East Asia. He writes on a regular basis for the lay press on topics concerning health care and travel in the tropics, and has been a member of the American College of Emergency Medicine, American Medical Association, Singapore Medical Association and Singapore Academy of Medicine. Dr. Zakowich has resided in Southeast Asia for the past 25 years. His wife, Fiona, is a Singaporean, and they have two daughters.