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Why climate change threatens our children’s future: hurricanes, floods, and a call to act

Sheetal Khedkar Rao, MD
Policy
October 31, 2024

As Valencia, Spain, reels from devastating flash floods and the U.S. Southeast recovers from hurricanes Helene and Milton, I, like many other parents, look at my own kids with increasing concern about the ailing world they will inherit.

If a climate haven like Asheville, North Carolina, lying 2,000 feet above and 300 miles away from the ocean, can be swept away by a single catastrophic storm, how can we possibly keep our children safe?

Scientists have shown that ocean warming due to …

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Why climate change threatens our children’s future: hurricanes, floods, and a call to act

The unfair blame on primary care physicians

Sheetal Khedkar Rao, MD
Physician
July 12, 2021

When plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Pearl published his Los Angeles Times op-ed, “How Doctor Culture Sinks U.S. Healthcare,” a polemic essay critical of primary care physicians like me, he set off a firestorm. While he made some valid points, Dr. Pearl also blamed many of the preventative health failures in the U.S. squarely on the shoulders of primary care physicians without acknowledging that our health care …

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The unfair blame on primary care physicians

The problem with allowing COVID-positive health care workers to continue working

Sheetal Khedkar Rao, MD
Conditions
November 18, 2020

On November 9th, the governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, decided to allow hospital workers with COVID-19 to continue to come to work. He required that they be asymptomatic and that they only work on COVID-19 wards with COVID-19 patients. Given at-capacity hospitals and skyrocketing case counts in that state, health care workers (HCW) had asked state leadership to take extraordinary measures to curb disease spread. HCW were (and are) …

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