2018 Auerbach Why physicians should care about climate change

<p>May 12, 2018 01:00 PM</p>

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for the obvious reason... &nbsp;&nbsp;ER docs are on the front line and hot weather increases acute illness &nbsp;(and espec acute on chronic)</p>

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v hot => &nbsp;CHF, &nbsp;incr acute kidney; &nbsp;allergies, chronic lung, asthma, &nbsp;CAD</p>

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climate change => a disease force multiplier.</p>

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need a clarion call => climate change is greatest medf challenge ever faced.</p>

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vector migration; heat waves; &nbsp;civil discord, &nbsp;mass migration, sea lvel rise;

depression and fatalism.</p>