At the 2022 annual meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA), climate change was declared a public health crisis. AMA Board Member Ilse R. Levin, DO, MPH, stated that “the scientific evidence is clear — our patients are already facing adverse health effects associated with climate change, from heat-related injuries, vector-borne diseases, and air pollution from wildfires to worsening seasonal allergies and storm-related illness and injuries.” …
“How Can Physicians Be Prepared To Discuss Climate Change With Patients?…By recognizing the effects of extreme weather caused by climate change, physicians can be better prepared to address symptoms and appropriately diagnose patients. An effective method for discussing the effects of climate change is to emphasize the health consequences of the weather event. By starting a discussion about how a particular symptom is caused by climate change, physicians can appeal to the patient’s main interest…
Physicians can broach the topic of climate change and health by using brief educational messages with their patients. … An effective method for discussing the effects of climate change is to emphasize the health consequences of the weather event. By starting a discussion about how a particular symptom is caused by climate change, physicians can appeal to the patient’s main interest. For example, if a patient presents with asthma and difficulty breathing, physicians can start the conversation by mentioning that the difficulty breathing is likely a result of high air pollution caused by climate change…
Physicians can also encourage eco-friendly transportation, such as the use of bike paths and public transportation, instead of commuting by car.”
Impact of Recent Climate Change Events on Health
https://www.thecardiologyadvisor.com/home/topics/prevention/health-effects-of-climate-change/
Impact of Recent Climate Change Events on Health – The Cardiology Advisor
Excerpt via The Cardiology Advisor:
Climate Change Is a Public Health Crisis
At the 2022 annual meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA), climate change was declared a public health crisis. AMA Board Member Ilse R. Levin, DO, MPH, stated that “the scientific evidence is clear — our patients are already facing adverse health effects associated with climate change, from heat-related injuries, vector-borne diseases, and air pollution from wildfires to worsening seasonal allergies and storm-related illness and injuries. Taking action now won’t reverse all of the harm done, but it will help prevent further damage to our planet and our patients’ health and well-being.”3
Climate change affects human health in widespread and complex ways. Physicians therefore need to be prepared to handle the health-related effects of climate change.
The first step toward helping patients is to become educated on how climate change can affect health. The health effects of climate change are expansive and multifaceted. Numerous online continuing medical education (CME) courses on the health effects of climate change are available for physicians.20-22 These courses provide background information on the types of events caused by climate change, as well as the health risks to patients and treatment options for physicians.
Additionally, the World Health Organization (WHO) provides information on climate change and how it affects human health, and this information can serve as a useful tool for physicians.23 The WHO also organizes a Global Conference on Health and Climate Change every 2 years; this symposium supports engagement, education, and policy change.24
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How Can Physicians Be Prepared To Discuss Climate Change With Patients?
By recognizing the effects of extreme weather caused by climate change, physicians can be better prepared to address symptoms and appropriately diagnose patients.
Physicians should also be aware of the mental health changes that can occur due to extreme weather events resulting from climate change, as well as the mental health changes that could be expected within their geographic region. Physicians should be prepared to talk to their patients about mental health and be aware of the resources available to them — including referring patients to mental health providers, when necessary.
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Physicians can broach the topic of climate change and health by using brief educational messages with their patients. … An effective method for discussing the effects of climate change is to emphasize the health consequences of the weather event. By starting a discussion about how a particular symptom is caused by climate change, physicians can appeal to the patient’s main interest. For example, if a patient presents with asthma and difficulty breathing, physicians can start the conversation by mentioning that the difficulty breathing is likely a result of high air pollution caused by climate change. …
Physicians can also encourage eco-friendly transportation, such as the use of bike paths and public transportation, instead of commuting by car.
At the 2022 annual meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA), climate change was declared a public health crisis. AMA Board Member Ilse R. Levin, DO, MPH, stated that “the scientific evidence is clear — our patients are already facing adverse health effects associated with climate change, from heat-related injuries, vector-borne diseases, and air pollution from wildfires to worsening seasonal allergies and storm-related illness and injuries.” …
“How Can Physicians Be Prepared To Discuss Climate Change With Patients?…By recognizing the effects of extreme weather caused by climate change, physicians can be better prepared to address symptoms and appropriately diagnose patients. An effective method for discussing the effects of climate change is to emphasize the health consequences of the weather event. By starting a discussion about how a particular symptom is caused by climate change, physicians can appeal to the patient’s main interest…
Physicians can broach the topic of climate change and health by using brief educational messages with their patients. … An effective method for discussing the effects of climate change is to emphasize the health consequences of the weather event. By starting a discussion about how a particular symptom is caused by climate change, physicians can appeal to the patient’s main interest. For example, if a patient presents with asthma and difficulty breathing, physicians can start the conversation by mentioning that the difficulty breathing is likely a result of high air pollution caused by climate change…
Physicians can also encourage eco-friendly transportation, such as the use of bike paths and public transportation, instead of commuting by car.”
Physician, heal thyself
There is no climate crisis
Is there a cure for Dunning Krugerism?
I’m not sure I’m qualified to answer!
re: “Is there a cure for Dunning Krugerism?”
A review, an actual study of the facts can do this, but, it requires a functioning mind (as a requirement). This requirement to possess a functioning mind turns out to be the factor between causing one to accept the ‘pap’ (and emotional sales-job) from the alarmists versus reality (an actual review of the facts and actual science, e.g. radiative heat transfer et al. This can require some time to accomplish as it isn’t simply a one-evening, sit-down exercise.)
Yes. Asylum.
My GP is a realist, he won’t buy into this crap
Take two new jabs and call me in the morning.
What happened to “First, do no harm”?
Isn’t the full quote … do no harm to the bottom line?
The actual original is “I will never harm my suffering friend, because life is sacred” and is a few paragraphs in.
The crisis is the relentless claim of a climate crisis.
I long for the days when there were no weather events and all were healthy.
…and where ever you were the temperature morning, noon, and night adhered to government standards (whatever they might be) and never changed. Because as they keep telling us, before that Climate Started Changing that Globe it was a warming and it is all your fault.
Of course. Before 1850, all was Camelot. Ignoring the horse hockey in the streets was necessary though.
If my doctor tells me any of that stuff, he will no longer be my doctor,
and I will tell him politics has no place in medicine as I walk out the door.
I would do the same. But as I am a professional earth scientist, I would charge him appropriately for my services as I explain to him why he is completely wrong about his unscientific position on the existence of a climate crisis. Perhaps my fee might offset his . . .
Why not challenge him instead? He will only know the biased narrative he’s given to discuss, maybe open his eyes & mind
My MP is one Rosena Allin-Khan…. a sort of doctor at the local hospital (St. George’s)
When it comes to the kool aid, she can drink most of them under the table.
Labour MP found guilty of misusing Parliamentary resources – again
Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan will have to apologise to Parliament after being caught misusing Parliamentary resources for political campaigning:
On 2 November 2019, Dr Allin-Khan sent 1,624 letters (of which one was received by complainant) using House of Commons headed paper and pre-paid House-provided envelopes. The letter was entitled “Brexit Update”…
https://www.markpack.org.uk/166012/rosena-allin-khan-parliamentary-expenses/
We could do with a decent MP round here!
The only ill health effect of climate change that I’m likely to experience is high blood pressure from getting angry with alarmist goons.
Luckily for most of us, our doctors don’t belong to the AMA.
In the early 1950s, about 75% of US physicians were AMA members. That percentage has steadily decreased over the years. In June 2011, at the annual meeting of its policy-making body, the House of Delegates, the AMA announced that it lost another 12 000 members last year.
Only around 15% of practicing U.S. doctors belong to the AMA. Most paying members are research and teaching.
Doctor: “Tell me please, how did you arrive here for your appointment?”
Patient: “I drove here.”
Doctor: “EV?”
Patient: “No. Can’t afford it.”
Doctor: “Shame on you.”
There you have it.
Brilliant – would make a good Monty Python sketch
Doctor: So you have asthma is it? Why didn’t you pedal your bicycle in here?
Patient: Well doc, I can’t catch a breath. How could I ride a bike ten miles? And how would that help in any case?
D: My dear you must think long term. If you and everyone in the country would stop driving and heating and eating meat, then we would be at least a quarter of a percentage point toward the goal of global net zero! You do believe in The Science ™ don’t you?
P: But if I collapse in the road or freeze to death in my unheated home?
D: Well that’s the point of all this, isn’t it?
When the AMA uses “weather event” to show “climate change” they are displaying their agenda. Sadly, the AMA has veered off into political activism. They previously asked patients, especially children, if there were firearms in the house, as part of their anti Second Amendment activism. Nevada_Geo has it right, walk out on any Doctor not focused on healing.
It is a good thing for today’s doctors that “First, do no harm” is no longer officially part of the Hippocratic Oath. Because terrorizing the innocent, indeed, causes harm. The conversations suggested by the AMA at the very least flood the body with unhealthy levels of cortisol, causing free-floating anxiety. Feelings of depression, helplessness, and suicidal ideation are likely to proceed from climate change indoctrination. Evidence for that already exists. The medical community lost a considerable number of brownie points during the COVID thing; Fauci and the WHO drove their credibility into the toilet. Another episode of gaslighting the public for political gain might not be in the best interest of the profession.
When you see the younger docs stood on picket lines, you know their oath is secondary
This is another “let them eat cake” – “First, do no harm” has actually never been part of the hippocratic oath.
So they are forcing their sick, anti-human religion into medicine as well as government. Got it.
It is the way, expect it from every public service, your taxes used against you
Biden is asking for funding to develop jabs for newly emerging cv variants. The vaccines will be ready in weeks.
I am sure they will undergo thorough testing.
Biden is on vacation – his handlers make the decisions for him and that’s the way it will be until Joey is finally run outta Dodge.
“Merging of Public Health & Climate”
In the case of London and Tuesday’s arrival of the pan greater London area coverage of ULEZ such a ‘merger’ is crucial to…. fill empty coffers.
TfL owes north of £12 billion, despite numerous government bailouts during the pandemic. For Khan Covid was racist (really) and he did everything he could to put people off of using public transport – hence a much larger than necessary hole in the accounts.
Why does London need ULEZ? (Yes, we know its about money…)
ULEZ is necessary to bring down air pollution. Khan says this is a major threat to public health, which is causing thousands of premature deaths every year. That’s demonstrably false, but he who pays the piper calls the tune.
“If you oppose ULEZ, he says, then you’re on the side of smog, asthma and diseased lungs. Perhaps you’re a far-right conspiracy theorist, too. Most of all, in the eyes of City Hall, to be against ULEZ is to be a denier of science.
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The main piece of research that Khan uses to defend the ULEZ comes from Imperial College London’s Environmental Research Group, which has received over £800,000 in funding from City Hall since 2021. In that same year, it was paid £45,000 specifically for a report on the ‘future health benefits of mayoral air-quality policies’.
This report gave the mayor all the evidence he needed. It made bold claims about ULEZ’s potential to increase Londoners’ life expectancy, and it warned that pollution deaths were highest in outer London – precisely where the ULEZ was due to expand into. It was not peer reviewed.
Problems arose for the mayor when another department at Imperial, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, published its own study calling these findings into question later in 2021. It found that since the ULEZ was introduced in inner London in 2019, it had only cut nitrogen-dioxide pollution by three per cent, while its impact on ozone and particulate matter had been negligible. Essentially, this torpedoed the mayor’s justification for expanding the ULEZ. If this punishing tax on older cars didn’t actually make much of a difference to air pollution, then it could hardly be expected to save thousands of Londoners’ lives.
When the study was picked up by the press, Rodrigues wrote to Professor Frank Kelly, head of Imperial’s Environmental Research Group, to express how ‘disappointed’ she was to see the dissenting research out in the open. Kelly agreed to issue a rebuttal statement, using Rodrigues’s wording, that ULEZ had in fact helped to ‘dramatically reduce air pollution’. “
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/08/24/the-lies-driving-sadiq-khans-ulez/
So when somebody says you should follow the science, check first who bought it.
It’s utterly amazing how paying more tax heals the air, the climate, your health, the planet said no one ever
re: “So when somebody says you should follow the science, check first who bought it.”
This may be apropos here – “She [or He] Blinded Me With Science”
So, are we going to have to wear masks until it cools off?
Only until PPE sales / shares have created another 20 billionaires
With new car sales falling, maybe Ford can make some more ventilators.
I hope my GP never wants to discuss climate change alarmism with me, the consultation would be very interesting, may even convert him to a realist
“Public health” has always been political and preachy, with politics causing malign effects. It would have been possible post WWII to deal with syphilis and gonorrhea with the then new antibiotics, but concern over public morality prevented any extensive program before the rise of resistant strains.
Equally, AIDS was mismanaged, due to sensitivity over both “stigmatizing” gay people, and squeamishness in not publicizing the far and away most common transmission path was anal sex or IV needles.
Fauci et al treated his audience as idiots to be manipulated, unable to understand the issues, and the same elitist attitudes cover “climate change”.
The goal has been changing the behavior of the hoi polloi, not informing their employers of the risks.
“..By recognizing the effects of extreme weather caused by climate change” (my underline)
Why is the underlined phrase necessary?
If “effects of extreme weather” are now a medical issue (despite the fact that we’ve always had fires, floods, hurricanes of this frequency and intensity) why is the “cause” relevant to treatment?
I remember experiencing a few decades where “data based medicine” was an important and emerging concept. I guess data is now passe.
amazing – the more the climate narrative falls apart, the more the alarmists come up with new ways to promote it
“By starting a discussion about how a particular symptom is caused by climate change, physicians can appeal to the patient’s main interest. For example, if a patient presents with asthma and difficulty breathing, physicians can start the conversation by mentioning that the difficulty breathing is likely a result of high air pollution caused by climate change…”
I used to suffer from severe hay fever in the spring – 6 weeks of it, in fact, every year. Twenty years ago, we moved from an area with high concentrations of birch and alder to a much drier place where the only birch trees are ornamental ones planted in people’s yards. I haven’t had hay fever since we moved. There are still abundant birch and alder trees on the west coast of North America. My over-active immune system just doesn’t have to deal with it anymore.
Five years ago, I was tested for food allergies. Once I knew what I was allergic to, I stopped eating those foods, and Lo and Behold! the chronic itching and eczema I had been plagued with disappeared.
It is well known that North Americans over-sanitize everything in sight. Lysol commercials on TV constantly tell us that we need to “disinfect to protect,” even though we know that the use of cleaning chemicals is hard on people’s lungs.
It does patients no good for doctors to ignore the real causes of people’s medical issues in favour of pushing “climate change” rhetoric. In my opinion, it violates their Hippocratic oath.
“Impact of recent climate change events on health.”
Please provide a list of recent climate change events.
Abdication of common sense.
The only measurable medical effects are from climate change policy and climate change alarmism reporting.
Depression, apathy, suicide.
AMA is enabling this.
One more body to be cleansed or decimated
re: “American Medical Association declared climate change a public health crisis – Physicians Urged to discuss ‘climate change’ with patients”
Dunning & Kruger (or somebody) needs to add an additional chapter or Annex to the work originally done by Dunning & Kruger.
Dan Bongino terms this new class of idiots “stupid smart people”.
We, the ‘educated’, have to spread ‘the message’ to the Hoi Polloi.
Sadly this deluded arrogance is all pervasive.
‘(T)he evidence is clear’ is a sales pitch promoting an idea that’s a pure snow job.
After the medical profession’s terrible performance on covid and ‘gender affirming care’, I’m not about to accept anything a health care provider says about climate, a field of study far outside their understanding.
I was very happy to discuss climate change with my patients throughout my career. I would explain the lack of evidence of anything wrong with our weather/climate, the failure of climate models which predict catastrophe to predict any important aspect of weather/climate correctly within recent observation, the fact that human society has continuously done better and better as time passes with far less risk of injury or death from climate related phenomena, and how all the solutions proposed by the climate propagandists are destined to do significant harm to human society, especially the most vulnerable, with no measurable benefits except to wealthy kleptocrats who stand to make a literal and figurative killing. Fortunately many if not most of my patients already understood many of these facts without my assistance.
Another case of…”Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual would believe them.”
Considering that this is the same outfit that wants taxpayers to fund uterine transplants for trans “women” obviously their policy makers have lost all touch with reality. But don’t worry–there will soon be a “vax” for that too.
I took my temperature today. It was 98.685 deg F. I’ve called my doctor for an appointment as it is clear that climate change has raised my internal temperature and it’s a crisis since I’m running a fever. If he poopoos my diagnosis I will petition the AMA to remove his membership.
If there’s any kind of professional association anywhere in the western world that has NOT bought in to the climate crisis, I’d love to hear about it.
And the medical associations are among the worst, because – on top of the climate nonsense – of the way they all bought into the authoritarian covid-19 agenda. Cancelling peoples’ licences for having opinions, no less.
To paraphrase an old (but still relevant) quote: Those who can, do; those who can’t, run professional associations.
Might has well provide a pre filled voting card with the prescription.