History Main / NoHealthcareInTheApocalypse

* ''Series/{{Jeremiah}}'': Every known surgeon in the world died when the Big Death decimated the world's adult population, so the few doctors shown in the show tend to have been kids during the pandemic who don't have either the training or supplies that doctors fifteen years earlier would have had, and the scarcity of such doctors can have consequences (guest character Maggie is in wheelchair because their were no doctors to set her broken legs, VillainOfTheWeek Michael has no therapists to talk down his GodhoodSeeker complex, etc.).

* ''Series/{{Jeremiah}}'': Every known surgeon in the world died when the Big Death decimated the world's adult population, so the few doctors shown in the show tend to have been kids during the pandemic who don't have either the training or supplies that doctors fifteen years earlier would have had, and the scarcity of such doctors can have consequences (guest character Maggie is in wheelchair because their were no doctors to set his broken leg, VillainOfTheWeek Michael has no therapists to talk down his GodhoodSeeker complex, etc.).

* ''Series/{{Jeremiah}}'': Every known surgeon in the world died when the Big Death decimated the world's adult population, so the few doctors shown in the show tend to have been kids during the pandemic who don't have either the training or supplies that doctors fifteen years earlier would have had.

* ''Series/{{See}}'': Played with. Paris and a few other characters are trained in basic medical care like stitching lacerations and uncomplicated baby deliveries. They do as well as one could with limited equipment and while working by touch. But Tormada's "experiments" at surgically restoring sight are explicitly nothing but ineffective torture. Even Jerlamarel and his older sighted children are unable to perform eye surgery while having old medical texts to refer to.

** Implied in ''Film/MadMax1'' and [[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior its sequel]] for Max's wife Jessie. She is run over by Toecutters gang and initially survives, albeit in critical condition. She is confirmed to be dead by the second film, most likely due to the hospital's lack of resources from society breaking down. Though strangely enough, Roop (one of Max's colleagues) is given an electronic larynx after his throat gets mutilated by broken glass during the opening car chase with Nightrider. Considering that society is beginning to collapse, that kind of resource investment seems out of place, especially in the isolated backwater the movie takes place in.

** This is the main reason for why AmputationStopsSpread only works a few times; if someone is bitten by a Walker, the injured limb has to be removed immediately (and this is obviously impossible if they're bitten somewhere that can't be amputated, like the torso or head), and unless done by a medical professional, the amputee will almost certainly die from bloodloss or infection anyway. As you can probably guess, the times the main characters have a doctor around at those exact moments can be counted on one hand.

** Implied in ''Film/MadMax1'' and [[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior its sequel]] for Max's wife Jessie. She is run over by bikers and initially survives, albeit in critical condition. She is confirmed to be dead by the second film, most likely due to the hospital's lack of resources from society breaking down.
** ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': [[spoiler: Angharad]]'s unborn baby is [[TraumaticCSection cut out of her while she is dying]] by the Organic Mechanic, who displays a butcher-like demeanor and calmness as he fiddles with the umbilical cord and the baby's corpse, clearly having no interest in the wellbeing of either mother or child.

* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'': In the second ''Clementine'' graphic novel, Clementine befriends another teenager who's [[BlindWithoutEm virtually blind without her glasses]]. Her older brother broke her original pair to force her to be dependant on him out of some bizarre obsession to make her stay with him, but while they were scavenging for supplies some time later, she happened to stumble into an optometrist store, and found a new pair that were close enough to her prescription to work. She understandably hightailed it out of there, leaving her brother behind.

* ''Literature/TheStand'': One whole chapter deals with the deaths of superflu survivors who'd been immune. Some of those met with accidents that they might have survived, if only there had been other people around to give them medical aid. And, of course, there's the case of poor Mark, a member of Stuart and Frannie's group, who suffers from appendicitis and dies while they're performing surgery on him.

* ''Series/IntoTheBadlands'': Played with. Veil and her father are both doctors and provide care to patients from barons to the enslaved cogs; but they appear to be the ''only'' physicians in the entirety of the Badlands - so that the Widow has Veil kidnapped to perform emergency surgery. They are also quite limited in what they can do: Veil can trepan a skull to treat a hematoma, but Quinn's brain tumor is incurable. Some of the factions outside the Badlands do have healing skills, such as the Abbott's Master gift for magically repairing bones.

* ''Webcomic/SweetHome'': Yuri Park, a resident of the apartment building, is asthmatic. By the time she joins the other survivors of the "monsterization" phenomenon, her inhaler is nearly empty, putting her at risk of asthma attacks.

* ''Film/AQuietPlace'': In the opening scene, the family is at an abandoned drugstore looking for medicine for middle child Marcus, who is so sick he needs to be carried. The drugstore has been picked clean of everything except the chips (crisps for UK readers) in the snack section (Why did nobody take the chips? [[FridgeBrilliance Because that would make noise.)

* ''Film/AQuietPlace'': In the opening scene, the family is at an abandoned drugstore looking for medicine for middle child Marcus, who is so sick he needs to be carried. The drugstore has been picked clean of everything except the chips (crisps for UK readers) in the snack section.

* ''VideoGame/MadMax'':

* ''[[Literature/{{Emberverse}} Dies the Fire]]'': Most medicine becomes useless within days of the worldwide blackout, after the refrigerators stop working and the cars that would have carried it elsewhere died as well. Juniper and her Wiccan coven are experienced at using herbs and other natural medicine to help people, but can only do so much. One doctor who settled near Juniper has a box with 12,000 doses of a powdered medicine that can stop diseases like the plague. He mentions that it was the only thing he could carry away with him on foot after leaving his hospital, and notes that they need to save it for emergencies, otherwise it will all be gone in no time.

* ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023'': The difficulty of finding medicine proves a problem for Henry, who needs it for his brother Sam's leukemia. He ends up making a deal with the oppressive FEDRA government to get the medicine in exchange for betraying RebelLeader Michael to them, leading to Michael's death.

* ''Film/{{Threads}}'' points out that, even if Britain's National Health Service survived a nuclear attack, it would be unable to cope with the effects of even a single nuke on a single city. This is illustrated via a scene set in a hospital which has been overrun with bomb casualties, where operations (including amputations) are being carried out without anaesthetics, under conditions where even basic levels of hygiene are impossible to maintain. The accompanying narration states that doctors can now do very little for their patients and are "no better equipped than the nearest survivor."