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| B.C. Doctor Clinically Diagnoses Patient As Suffering From 'Climate Change' |
| 2021-11-07 |
| 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 |
| #10 They should revoke the license of any doctor who pulls this bullshit. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2021-11-07 20:21 |
| #9 I am sorry. Anywhere in North America you should have air-conditioning. If you don't you are kind of "slow". Nuff said. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2021-11-07 19:51 |
| #8 Sounds like a good candidate for a turn in the bronze bull. After the doc takes his time in the oven, he can explain how climate change hurt him. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2021-11-07 19:03 |
| #7 Did the patient have shifting plates? Did she suffer from subduction? What about her currents did they shift? Will there be a shot for climate change? Now, I'm getting silly! Must be the loss of the icecaps. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2021-11-07 18:41 |
| #6 Aren't Canadian ERs air conditioned? That should help the patients. Beyond that, make sure they get water and check they haven't lost too much salt. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-11-07 18:29 |
| #5 Must be looking for as US CDC or NIH position. Either way I wonder what Medical code that the Doc used for Med-File coding. BTW: Playing Politics with Patient care is a clear violation of his Medical Oath and might cost him his license. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-11-07 16:20 |
| #4 Regression to a primitive state. Witch doctors, faith healers, Climate Sachems |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-11-07 14:36 |
| #3 "We were having to figure out how do we cool someone in the emergency department," says the doctor. You're fn kidding me with this right? The whole article. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-11-07 13:29 |
| #2 This will only worsen patient compliance issues. Bastardized politics and now Physicians. |
| Posted by: Dale 2021-11-07 13:28 |
| #1 Just another example of politicized medical personnel, let the 'buyer of their brand of medicine beware' - Like Covidian Medical personnel - buy one experimental shot (add another, because 1 is not enough) & another (ditto 2 not enough) & another (ditto 3 not enough)) add $90 a day pills, which you must take for the rest of your life to stay alive.... perpetual politicized medicine. |
| Posted by: Heriberto Sproing5813 2021-11-07 13:17 |