Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Running from February 4 to May 15, this session promises to bring substantial changes to medical consent laws, Medicaid coverage, rural hospital funding, taxation on essential goods, and the transparency of healthcare costs. HB 86 – Rural Hospital Investment Fund Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep.

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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. And it is going to affect, if it hasn’t already, our food quality, the food that’s available, our medications. Ruth: Right. So we could go on.

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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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