My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

According to the World Health Organization, climate change will cause an additional 250,000 deaths every year worldwide between 2030 and 2050. They will occur where health systems are weakest and climate impacts are harshest—through malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, respiratory failure, and heat stress.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so we do see hospital admissions for heat exposure and certainly cardiovascular and respiratory problems related to air pollution with climate change and also cognitive problems. So it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. Why is it up to the healthcare system?

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital? Eric: Oh, wow.

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