‘Picked up his patient’s chart & penned in the words ‘climate change’
Times Colonist: Climate change enters the ER: For the first time in his 10 years as a physician, the ER doctor picked up his patient’s chart and penned in the words “climate change.” “If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just gonna keep falling further and further behind,” he told Glacier Media when asked why he did it. At the same time, Merritt says he hoped another family physician would read the chart, and one day, consider drawing a straighter line between their patients’ health and climate change.
… 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. … Starting Thursday at noon, Lau says the non-partisan group is calling on the provincial government to, among other things, declare an “ecological emergency” and end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. “A lot of us were really shook by this summer, by the heat dome and the wildfires that are just escalating every year,” she says. “This is about moving forward in a way that saves lives.”
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Calls to add ‘climate change’ to death certificates – New study demands ‘climate change’ be added as ‘pre-existing condition’
Cause of Death? Climate Change. “Climate change is a killer, but we don’t acknowledge it on death certificates,” co-author Dr Arnagretta Hunter, from The Australian National University (ANU) Medical School, said. “There is second component on a death certificate which allows for pre-existing conditions and other factors.
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B.C. doctor clinically diagnoses patient as suffering from ‘climate change’ https://t.co/dicVerPRle pic.twitter.com/sJRhjiRYrM
— Times Colonist (@timescolonist) November 6, 2021
By: Stefan Labbé
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.“I was worried about the summer that was coming,” says Merritt of the rising number of health-care workers desperate to talk about how climate change is affecting their patients’ health.
“I was really quite amazed at how many people have decided to jump in.”
Just as doctors and nurses started to make sense of the record heat, it cleared — only to be replaced by a blanket of wildfire smoke.
Climate change enters the ER
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When a patient came in struggling to breathe, Merritt knew the smoke — that hadn’t lifted from the region for days on end — had made a case of asthma worse.
For the first time in his 10 years as a physician, the ER doctor picked up his patient’s chart and penned in the words “climate change.”
“If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just gonna keep falling further and further behind,” he told Glacier Media when asked why he did it.
“It’s me trying to just … process what I’m seeing. We’re in the emergency department, we look after everybody, from the most privileged to the most vulnerable, from cradle to grave, we see everybody. And it’s hard to see people, especially the most vulnerable people in our society, being affected. It’s frustrating.”
At the same time, Merritt says he hoped another family physician would read the chart, and one day, consider drawing a straighter line between their patients’ health and climate change.
Smoke and heat affect more than peoples’ physical health. Merritt says he saw a number of patients already suffering from depression or anxiety have their symptoms worsen during the wildfire season. Wildfire smoke even triggered flashbacks in a patient who was coping with post-traumatic stress disorder from his time as a soldier.
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Doctors at the feet of power
As global heating takes centre stage in Glasgow this week, Merritt and about 40 other nurses and doctors are taking their concerns to Nelson’s city hall, where the group will rally alongside at least 130 more health-care workers demonstrating at the provincial legislature in Victoria.
“We wanted to do something big. We wanted to gather at the feet of power,” says Dr. Kelly Lau, a family physician based in Vancouver, who is among those headed to Victoria Nov. 4.
Starting Thursday at noon, Lau says the non-partisan group is calling on the provincial government to, among other things, declare an “ecological emergency” and end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.
“A lot of us were really shook by this summer, by the heat dome and the wildfires that are just escalating every year,” she says. “This is about moving forward in a way that saves lives.”
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“Hey boss, I can’t come to work today because I got a bad case of Climate Change”.
— Ken Mediareader (@Spruce_gum) November 7, 2021
I prefer the diagnosis of #ClimateDersngementSyndrome
Daniel Wirt MD
— Daniel Wirt (@wirt_dan) November 7, 2021
Surely it’s a doctors job to record observable medical facts. Researchers pick through that data later to determine overarching patterns.
This is like a fireman recording the cause of a suspicious fire as ‘traumatic childhood’.
— Kev (@Logicmanx) November 7, 2021
Even the suggestion of ‘climate change’ being a real condition from which one medically suffers from is preposterous and unethical.
The doctor is not fit to practice.
Canadians need to start taking charge of their own health care, and stop being conditioned.
— Alexander the pro free speech (@AlexanderTheNo7) November 7, 2021
Where do I get my climate change vaccine?
— Tim Rulez (@TimNorthVan) November 7, 2021
Related:
Cause of Death? Climate Change.
“Climate change is a killer, but we don’t acknowledge it on death certificates,” co-author Dr Arnagretta Hunter, from The Australian National University (ANU) Medical School, said. “There is second component on a death certificate which allows for pre-existing conditions and other factors.
“If you have an asthma attack and die during heavy smoke exposure from bushfires, the death certificate should include that information. We can make a diagnosis of disease like coronavirus, but we are less literate in environmental determinants like hot weather or bushfire smoke.” …
“Climate change is the single greatest health threat that we face globally even after we recover from coronavirus,” Dr. Hunter said.
Bill Gates on Aug. 6, 2020: “The actual economic and death toll from climate change will be much, much, much greater than what we have than what we have with this pandemic.”
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Still doesn’t attribute it to human causation though.
To adherents to the Church of CACA, “climate change” is understood to mean catastrophic anthropogenic CC.
Clear case of a Cacacide !
Does not that BC doctor know that birth is a major contributory cause to all death?
So is life, full stop!!! 😉
For none UK English speakers “caca” is also a children’s word for shit
Very apt, Vuk
I want to highlight the millions of people that didn’t die from cold because Climate Change ™
were they vaccinated?
social contagion
social hysteria
Insanity
Alex, what is a punk rock band from the 80s?
nice one
OK! Let’s give them what they want.
Remove immediately all fossil fuel products from their orbit, including heating, lighting, fuel for ambulances, plastics for syringes, vinyl gloves etc etc, as see how they get on.
I seem to remember at the start of the Covid outbreak that many deaths were described as being from Covid rather than with Covid.
One death in a motor-cycle accident was reportedly put down as due to Covid.
That poor woman’s death could just as well be put down as due to climate activism causing fuel poverty.
Don’t forget that nearly 99% of pharmaceutical feedstocks and reagents are derived from petrochemicals – so drastic reduction of life saving drugs!
Less drugs for US athletes. More chances for non US athletes.
“That poor woman’s death could just as well be put down as due to climate activism causing fuel poverty.”
Did she get the jab?
To be fair, in Nelson BC, it is likely that all their electricity and heating originates from hydro-electric generation.
To be fair, the construction of every aspect of the delivery of that form of electricity and heating was accomplished using…horses?
Remove immediately all fossil fuel products from their orbit, including heating, lighting, fuel for ambulances, plastics for syringes, vinyl gloves etc etc … AND Air Conditioning!!!
(“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.”)
If those doctors can’t figure out how to cool people, given an air conditioned environment, how will they do it without?
My diagnosis of Dr Merritt’s condition is: Common Idiocy aggravated by gullibility.
On top of that, if Dr Merritt ever finds it necessary to look for a job among hospitals/clinics/partnerships with private practice offices, which happen to embrace genuine science instead of emotional feelings about it, then the death of his medical career will be attributed to political suicide.
No, it is politics.
He has written a political statement into and official medical death certificate. The cause of death requires a direct physical cause. It does not require a speculative conclusion of the statistical probability of the underlying reason for the physical cause of death.
If someones dies from electrocution, you do not write Maxwell’s equations as the cause of death.
That is FALSE statement on a legal document. He should struck off.
Then, it was a case of professional misconduct.
What have the BC regulatory bodies of the medical profession to say about this case?
I agree.
I decided (already a few years ago) o refuse assistance from doctors who have made such kind of non-medical statements, or took such non-medical stances. The C-thing made a lot of them who had been silent to “come out” and show that they are prepared to drop the fundamentals of their profession at the slightliest hear-say published in msm.
Is he suffering with, or from climate change?
He is suffering from being a feminised bootlicker –
(and it made me chuckle that he spoke to glacier magazine :Is this a satire ?)
Maybe he’ll bother to explain the 3.7 mio dead people killed by natural disasters in 1931 and everything was fine but only a few thousand dead in 2021 and life is hell on earth.
Or that burned acreage is down by 90 % compared to 100 years ago and only rising as result of deliberate “poor” forest management that increases fuel load (that’s why the Biden Mafia is now hiding old data)
And i wonder how he can proof cause and effect in this case?
A year ago he would have blamed it on Trump(derangement syndrome )or H!tler,
this years we are being bombarded with 24/7 with climate change and there was
COP26 right now therefore it has to be climate change.
Mass Psychosis and narcissism among educated idiots with a degree is the only real threat to humanity.
Would you want to walk into his clinic knowing such an idiot was allowed to practice medicine? This is often the result of socialized medicine.
I live very close to the border but I avoid Canada because of the miserable health care. My wife’s good friend is missing a leg from the knee down because of the incompetent Canadian healthcare system. Canadian citizens I know come to the US for their healthcare needs so they can be taken care of properly.
I think more than incompetent, Canada’s healthcare system is SLOW. 4-12 months for an MRI that would be same day in USA.
Doctors are very susceptible to Dunning-Kruger. This one is a shining example.
he is a nobody and realised he could get his 60 seconds of fame
No, he’s making a false statement on an important legal document. He should be struck off and prosecuted.
No one has ever died from climate change — but some do die from climate alarmism … https://newtube.app/user/RAOB/yFA7uoq
Looking at the number of morons who have been indoctrinated with this BS fills me with FEAR AND PANIC.
Just thought of a better way to describe the fake notion that CO2 traps heat — in reality CO2 employs a Catch & Release system of radiation management.
Be sure to include all who die from the anxiety and fear of climate change, and the psychoses derived form that. It could be even larger than those that die from all of its physical consequences.
Anxiety and fear. Probably the 2 most insidious and undiagnosed causes of death than almost anything else. Whether climate change or the Covid, people have evidently lost, for the most part, the power of critics thinking. And positive thinking. IMO.
Cause of death:being treated by a delusional quack.
He is obviously no longer capable of making a correct medical assessment of the cause of death. He needs to be struck off.
I now list Gavin Newsom as my primary care physician on all medical paperwork I have to fill out for HIPAA and insurance documents.
The surprise is that no one I’ve ever returned the paperwork to has ever said a thing.
Stupidity has no limits.
Sometimes, as the refrain goes, “you can’t fix stupid.”
So a doctor can be struck off for trying to treat a covid patient with ivermectin, hydroxychoroquine and zinc or praised for making the most ridiculous diagnosis anyone with any sense has ever heard.
I think we need 2A style right to cary medical care/insurance! (The original one, not the NY variant.)
I’ve always thought that Birth Certificates should be a 2-sided document, with the ‘B’ side being a form for Death Certificate.
After all, the Death Cert really only has to have 3 fields to be filled out –
WHEN
WHERE
HOW
Quack, quack, quack.
Is that guy now part of the Climate Scienist guild ?
He definitely belongs to the climate swines.
In a thousand years no doc was so stupid to blame a death on climate change.
No matter where or how hot the weather was.
But repeat some crap often enough and you will always find enough morons who will join the choir because they are so weak and so corrupt.
He’s shooting for Fauci’s team.
Yes, there were excess heat deaths, but the heat wave was weather, not climate.
Now, if that heat wave hangs around for the next 30 years and the Köppen climate classification for B.C. changes, then I guess I’ll give the doctor a pass and say he was right. It was Climate Change wot dunnit.
But he’s jumped the gun. Let’s see what happens next year and the following 29 years, eh?
(What a maroon!)
You don’t seem to have gotten the memo.
If it’s hot, it’s climate.
If it’s cold, it’s weather.
I’ve heard rumors, Mark.
😜
Actually, Mark, the memo said:
If it’s hot, it’s CO2.
If it’s cold, it’s CO2.
If it’s anything in between, it’s CO2.
It would still be wrong. Let’s say someone dies because of a gunshot. What killed him would likely be the bullet striking a vital organ or causing extreme blood loss. This doctor would make some assumption about the life of the person who shot him (probably climate change as well).
Even if it was almost certain that high temperatures were due to C02, it’s still irrelevant to cause of death. It’s still apparently dehydration or some similar process that can be brought about by higher temperatures. Anything else is not medically relevant.
Tru dat, Joe. The death would be from heatstroke whether or not the region ever turns into a burning hell of a desert.
(My dad would say that the cause of death was always the same; breathing stopped. So he figured the secret to a long life was to just keep breathing. 😜)
Prof Cliff Mass determined that even with 2 degrees F factored in for global warming in the Pacific North West since the 20th century began until the present time, this last June’s heatwave would still have produced record measured temperatures.
So maybe those Cause Of Death fields could have been filled out as –
“NATURAL CLIMATE CYCLE”
I think a better CoD would be: Failure to Adapt.
I wonder if the scope of qualification for Darwin Awards should be expanded to include “Imaginary Climate Trauma”?
I mean, the premise of the Darwin Awards is that humanity should acknowledge that some members of H0mo Sapiens are performing a public good by taking themselves out of the gene pool, so surely self-induced traumatic climate alarmism qualifies?
They “could” fight to shut down BCs coal mining and export port, largest in North America. No need to look outside the province for actions to take but they wont because its BCs largest export. So they will attack other provinces and countries.
BC is full of climate hypocrisy.
BC Lojik:
BC Coal: Good, helps economy.
Alberta Oil: BAD, turning earth into burning inferno.
who feeds and dresses this idiot?
This doctor needs to lose his license to practice medicine. If he wants to practice politics he can run for office; but this is medical malpractice.
How many Canadians retire to Phoenix, AZ every year?
In contrast, how many Canadians retire to Yellowknife every year?
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(Hint: Pop. ~20,000 and average age is 34.1 years. Not many Canadians up and move to retire in Yellowknife, I’m guessing.)
They much prefer Deadhorse.
In Canada, British Columbia is commonly called La La Land (I’m not joking about this) – now the world sees why!
They should be sued: Everyone knows that La La Land applies to Calalafornia…
We’re also called “The Left Coast” for the same reason.
Most of the loons in BC are concentrated in Victoria and Greater Vancouver but Nelson is well recognized as an outlying sanity free zone. This may be due in part to all the American draft dodgers who migrated there and their predilection for substance abuse.
I wouldn’t expect Canadian physicians to say anything else actually, they are government employees after all.
If they were not so ignorant in the matter they would probably prescibe CO2 as beeing the elexir of life for earth.
Just shows how our hard earned tax dollars are wasted on trying to educate incurables, aka idiots.
Apply more leeches…
Oh – we already have.
I expect that soon humans are running around like mad Lemmings screaming and pulling their hair due to climate change at the same time as the climat is perfectly normal.