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Clinicians and organizations in the health sector have healing missions, and physicians, specifically, take oaths to "do no harm." Yet, paradoxically, health care operations contribute to pollution and exacerbate environmental… Click to show full abstract
Clinicians and organizations in the health sector have healing missions, and physicians, specifically, take oaths to "do no harm." Yet, paradoxically, health care operations contribute to pollution and exacerbate environmental disease burden. This article offers a view of how health sector actions exacerbate climate warming and iatrogenically harm global public health and argues that clinicians and organizations have ethical responsibilities to respond.
Keywords:
respond health;
health;
care generating;
generating environmental;
health care
Journal Title: AMA journal of ethics
Year Published: 2022
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Journal Title: AMA journal of ethics
Year Published: 2022
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