The Explora Medicine Story
Everyone has a story – this is ours…
Welcome to Explora Medicine, where our humble journey began with a guy who clearly didn’t read the manual on avoiding disaster.
Meet Sunny Whitfield: a man whose resume reads like a b-rate action movie script. Before starting Explora Medicine, Sunny was a recon soldier and combat medic who managed to survive several warlike conflict zones before getting bitten by a cobra, dragged under water by a three-meter bull shark, surviving a direct hit by a tornado, and rolling a car (all in a day’s work, right?). His colleagues used to say that if anyone could turn a series of unfortunate events into a grand adventure, it’s Sunny.
After surviving these “character-building” experiences, Sunny traded in his combat gear for a backpack and joined multiple expeditionary teams through the Himalayas, North Africa and Central Asia, while studying paramedicine. Picture this: a map, a medical kit and an adventurous spirt. Between surviving an unprecedented arctic snowstorm, being run off the road by an angry elephant, and being swept out to sea Sunny developed a concept to keep himself and others safer.
Thus, Explora Medicine was born—not out of a conventionalbusiness plan, but from a series of epic misadventures, a healthy dose of audacity, and a firm belief that if you’re going to get into trouble, you might as well have a good risk manager and medic on hand.
Enter Nick Abussi: If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like if The Flash decided to become a paramedic and safety consultant, wonder no more—meet Nick, the man who redefined education in the world of critical care. Nick’s career is like a high-speed chase through the globe’s most exotic locales. From the depths of the ocean (where he’s a dive medicine guru) to the sweltering heat of the desert (where he knows the best way to stay cool is to, well, to stay cool), and everywhere in between, Nick has been there, done that, and did it faster than you can say paramedic.”
Nick and Sunny had previously met while both were student paramedics, but their paths crossed a decade later over a podcast. With a resume that includes badass trauma and primary care, Nick treats patients with the same
urgency as a driver in a high-speed car chase and he just fits the Explora Medicine ethos (Thrive in the Unknown). Therefore, if you find yourself in a pinch, the Explora Medicine duo have built a professional team of safety advisers, risk manages, technical specialist and medical professionals that none can rival. It’s the Explora Medicine way. Our crew make even the most urgent situations look like a leisurely stroll so our clients can complete their objectives.So if you’re scaling a mountain, traversing a jungle, crossing a desert, filming mega fauna, descending to the depths of the ocean, ascending into thin air, or just attempting to keep your coffee from spilling on your keyboard, remember: if Sunny can navigate a battlefield and survive a snake bite, shark bite and tornado spin, he’s got your back and so does Nick and the Explora Medicine crew!
Welcome to the adventure of risk management and medical excellence in remote and extreme environments!
Mission
To thrive in the unknown
Our Ethos
Our people are your people.
We are risk managers, security consultants, technical specialist, medical clinicians, adventurers, writers, producers, and content creators who share a similar passion for exploring remote and extreme environments while keeping people safe. But we also scaffold our responsible travel policy on three key areas.
Minimising our impact on the environment and protecting the planet.
Improving health literacy through education programs and cultural competence.
Creating a safe and positive working environment for all staff
Explora Medicine
Thrive in the unknown
We don’t just survive in these environments, our team thrives, so if you have a project requiring remote medical care that you’d like help with please get in touch.
Sunny's Books
Every book sold here is supporting safe water projects in India, Nepal and Uganda.
Read a good yarn, support a good cause.
Discussing the challenges of providing medical care whilst being chased by pirates, to sharing an ambulance with a monkey, to retrieving a patient from near the cauldron of an erupting volcano, ‘Helicopters, coconuts, volcanoes and sled dogs’ will put you in the passenger seat as the responders navigate their way through the unique challenges faced by remote medics. Sunny’s stories provide a rare insight into the lives of the extraordinary but genuine people of remote health care, the many extremely challenging situations they face, and the initiative and resourcefulness they demonstrate when other help is far away. Time matters distance matters, resources matter, but the ultimate story of life is that which plays out through circumstance and responses.
With a medley of experiences from the earliest days as a student paramedic, qualified officer, humanitarian health assistant, and high altitude medical officer, this book has underpinned the story of an everyday paramedic. Whilst thousands of ambulance officers, emergency medical technicians and paramedics criss-cross their way through communities around the world to provide support to people, 'Here Hold My Drink and Watch This' has captured a rare insight into the real people of paramedicine. Written from a down-to-earth perspective, Sunny brings to life the challenging and confronting work paramedics are faced with on a daily basis yet also finds some humour and consolation amongst the confusion and chaos.
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