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B.C. Doctor Clinically Diagnoses Patient As Suffering From 'Climate Change'
Any doctors making such a ridiculous diagnosis ought to have his or her licensed suspended for a few months. [Times Colonist, via Insty] - The head of a Nelson, B.C., emergency department says it's time doctors start looking at the underlying cause of medical conditions triggered by smoke and heat. When a patient in her 70s came into the emergency department at Kootenay Lake Hospital in Nelson, B.C., Dr. Kyle Merritt had no idea hundreds of people were dying of heat across the province. It was late June, and British Columbia was consumed under a heat wave that would soon go down as both the hottest and deadliest in Canadian history. The head of the hospital’s emergency department, Merritt could see the aggravated toll the extreme heat took on patients battling multiple health problems at once, often with little money. "She has diabetes. She has some heart failure. ... She lives in a trailer, no air conditioning," says Merritt of the senior patient. "All of her health problems have all been worsened. And she's really struggling to stay hydrated." As the mercury climbed, more patients arrived and pressure on the hospital mounted. Merritt and his colleagues tried to make sense of a surge in heat illness most had only seen in medical school. "We were having to figure out how do we cool someone in the emergency department," says the doctor. "People are running out to the Dollar Store to buy spray bottles." Merritt remembers hitting a tipping point, the extreme heat an opening salvo in another summer of crisis. He started contacting other doctors and nurses, in Prince George, Kamloops, Vancouver and Victoria. The response was immediate. Roughly 40 doctors and nurses at the small hospital — all busy trying to manage a pandemic and their regular professional lives — came together under the banner Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health. Posted by: Raj 2021-11-07 |
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