What the latest IPCC report means for physicians: There is no time for climate despair
As third-year medical students, we recently stepped out of the classroom and onto the wards, eager to provide the quality care we had been working towards for the better part of the last decade. We were, however, quickly met with a stark reminder of how climate change can jeopardize our ability to do so. We entered the ER in the midst of a blistering heatwave to find two patients waiting …
