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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 10/2020

01-10-2020 | Climate Change | Viewpoint

The Climate Crisis and the Exam Room

Author: Katherine C. Brooks, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 10/2020

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The summer after our daughter was born, my family traveled to my husband’s home of Puerto Rico. It was nearly two years after Hurricane Maria had devastated the island with unprecedented force and the impact was still visible throughout the island. One hot humid night in San Juan, we sat in my sister-in-law’s un-air-conditioned kitchen, monitoring a circling tropical storm and hoping we would make it back to the continental US before it struck land. …
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Metadata
Title
The Climate Crisis and the Exam Room
Author
Katherine C. Brooks, MD
Publication date
01-10-2020
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Keyword
Climate Change
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 10/2020
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06050-3

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