760 - Planetary Health in the ER: The Role of Medicine In The Earth Crisis
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The planetary health crisis can't be ignored in hospitals where patients are sick from climate-driven things like asthma from air quality emergencies, COVID-19 from a zoonotic spillover event, and cardiovascular complications from heat waves. Chris Lemon, an ER doctor and Bloomberg Health Initiative fellow who focuses on the intersection of climate change and health, talks with Stephanie Desmon about his work bringing planetary health dialogue to hospital staff while also looking at ways health systems can lower their massive carbon footprints.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.9 | This is Lindsay Smith-Rogers. |
| 0:34.3 | Can medical providers help treat the health of the planet? |
| 0:39.5 | On today's podcast, Stephanie Desmond talks to Chris Lemon, an ER doctor exploring the intersection of human and planetary |
| 0:44.9 | health care. They discuss Lemon's plans to train doctors and nurses to better communicate to |
| 0:50.6 | patients about the dangers of climate change and air pollution to their health |
| 0:54.5 | and to reduce the massive carbon emissions produced by the health care system. Let's listen. |
| 1:01.6 | Chris Lemon, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:04.1 | Pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:06.2 | I wanted to talk to you about sort of your unusual role. You're trying to bring the planetary health dialogue |
| 1:14.3 | to doctors, to nurses, to health care providers. |
| 1:17.1 | What does that mean? |
| 1:18.7 | It's a great question. |
| 1:20.3 | So what I'm trying to do is help the medical community |
| 1:24.8 | and the nursing community realize that there's a lot more work to be done. |
| 1:28.6 | I think a lot of us are burned out as a result of COVID or are coming into this profession |
| 1:33.5 | as a result of COVID. And either way, there's an interesting moment occurring right now where I |
| 1:37.9 | think that we have people looking for a sense of purpose and a sense forward for society. |
| 1:42.7 | And we're also in a situation right now where |
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