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It is interesting to note that many in the environmental community are using almost identical language in voicing their concerns over a related matter, i.e., the failure of society in controlling human population and promoting sustainability.
You state that "everything that we have accomplished in the fields of medicine and public health could be undermined if we do not pay attention to these rapid environmenta...
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I appreciate Dr. Roger Rosenblatt’s Reflections on Ecological Change and the Future of the Human Species (ref). Although it is daunting to confront the huge issues raised in the essay, he is right: despair is unacceptable. It will take creativity and attention to integrate this concern into our professional lives and practices, but there are many possibilities.
We can integrate this awareness in small but...
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Of the 1.7 trillion dollars spent on health care in the US in 2003, I believe it was 2-4% that went to the prevention of illness and suffering. As family healers, the family of man and his environs is indeed on all of our radar screens. Yet, to slip this "health maintainance" item onto the check list at the time of our patient's visit is challenged by competing interests for a vastly diminished resource...that is, prev...
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4 April 2005
Don’t I have enough to do without taking care of planet Earth? Where do I find the ICD-9 code and billing code for services rendered to the patient Dr. Rosenblatt describes in the March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine? Where does planet earth fit in with our other priorities?
I currently work with rural primary care practices in Oregon as part of a practice-based research network. T...
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