Climate change doctors are trained to lecture their patients
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Climate Change Doctors. Not the ‘Babylon Bee’.
Apparently medical doctors are being trained to become Climate Change experts, and lecture their patients.
Since I don’t see (or trust) Western doctors, and I don’t take any prescription medicine, I probably find this intersection of Climate Change and prescription “health care” more absurd than most.
If trust in Western medical doctors didn’t plummet after the lockdown fiasco, adding in climate change scaremongering to the push for buying endless prescription pills should dismantle any remaining ivory tower hero worship of the medical / pharmaceutical profession.
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“Some doctors are equipping themselves with new tools to make a difference at the intersection of climate and health care.
A Grist report has detailed how the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy, part of Harvard Medical School, created a fellows program to provide “health care professionals with community-organizing tools for climate action” and increase understanding of the impacts of global heating on health.
According to the organization’s website, the goal is to allow health professionals to do their part by encouraging “structural change” through their work in the community.
“Climate change is a public health and health equity crisis,” the Cambridge Health Alliance has said.
“Increasingly, health professionals recognize that mitigating and responding to the impacts of climate change is critical to improving the health of their patients.”
… “When I speak, people listen,” he said of his role as a physician.
“Other people I feel a little bit bad for — they have to, like, disrupt plays in order to get their message out.
And here I’m given opportunities to speak and be listened to. So that’s why I’ve been a part of this and will continue to be.”