No, Doctor Merritt, ‘Climate Change’ Does Not Affect Human Health, but Weather Does
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Anthony Watts -
November 8, 2021 0
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A November 4th article in the Canadian newspaper, Victoria Times Colonist, reported, B.C. doctor clinically diagnoses patient as suffering from ‘climate change.’ On its face, this is an absurd claim. It is impossible to link any individual illness or death to climate change, a long-term trend, as opposed to an individual person’s physiological response to weather conditions.
During a heat wave in British Columbia, Dr. Kyle Merritt diagnosed an elderly patient suffering from multiple long-term medical conditions with “climate change.”
“She has diabetes. She has some heart failure. … She lives in a trailer, no air conditioning,” said Merritt of the senior patient. “All of her health problems have all been worsened. And she’s really struggling to stay hydrated.”
Merritt’s diagnosis was a political not a medical statement, and might be considered medical malpractice. Whereas, each of the patient’s conditions have identifiable medical treatments, there is no medical treatment for climate change. One must ask, did he throw up his hands and call for restrictions on fossil fuel emissions, or did he do his job and treat the patient’s symptoms and the underlying diseases which actually caused her health crisis.
https://climaterealism.com/2021/11/no-doctor-merritt-climate-change-does-not-affect-human-health-but-weather-does/
