2/28/23
CanMEDS and Planetary Health: How to train a doctor
. . . although I’m obviously in favour of any efforts to educate physicians about Planetary Health, the inclusion of a lecture on the topic at a CanMEDS conference doesn’t seem quite right to me. It feels a bit like sticking a band-aid on the CanMEDS framework.
Climate criminal desflurane banished from Ontario Hospital
. . . one stands out as particularly culpable. Desflurane. If there were a carbon price on its head, this climate criminal would be dead and gone faster than it puts people to sleep.
Operating rooms have big carbon footprints too!
Help. Health. Healing. That’s what health care systems are supposed to be about. So it’s something of an oxymoron that a system intended for health is harming the health of the planet . . .
First, do no harm while treating asthma
. . . To put it simply, our health care is harming the planet and consequently our health . . .
There’s no safe limit when it comes to air pollution
Sudburnians are all too familiar with the killing power of air pollution. Sulphur dioxide (SO2) and other toxic emissions from industry and mining killed our lakes and forests and stripped our landscape down to bare black rock . . .