HCP Live April 25, 2024
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Solomon discusses the health care system’s role in mitigating climate change and how health care professionals can help protect and inform their patients.

Health care is a major contributor to climate change, contributing approximately 5% of total greenhouse gas emissions and similar fractions of toxic air emissions. However, the health care system is also greatly impacted by changing climatic conditions, a topic Caren Solomon, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, highlighted during her session at the 2024 American College of Physicians (ACP) Internal Medicine Meeting in Boston.

In a post-conference Q&A with the editorial team of HCPLive, Solomon gave an overview of key topics discussed during her session and...

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