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Doctors Push For Health Care To Address Climate Change In New Teaching Framework

Doctors join Extinction Rebellion activists continue to demonstrate for the sixth day running in Trafalgar Square on Oct. 12, 2019 in London, England. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

Climate change isn’t just transforming our environment and weather — it’s impacting our health.

That’s why a group of doctors created a new education framework to teach medical residents how to address climate change with their patients.

Up until recently, future doctors lacked guidelines for working with climate change-related challenges, says lead author of Emory University School of

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