Doctors Told To Stop Diagnostics and Cut Prescriptions “To Slow Climate Change”
The Royal College of Physicians has declared that climate change “is one of the biggest threats to human health” and will kill a quarter of a million people every year by 2050. Which is why it has created a “green toolkit” telling doctors across the UK how they can save the climate…
Flagship recommendations for doctors to “slow the pace of climate change” include reducing prescriptions, cutting blood tests, and reducing diagnostic imaging. What’s the point, seeing as we are all about to be eviscerated in climate judgement day anyway…
Doctors are also told that they should work remotely where possible and use more “active travel” like walking and car-pooling. When they do get face to face with patients, though, they are as “uniquely trusted members of the community” told to “help their communities understand how climate change will affect their health” which includes talking “about the health benefits of climate action“. “Sorry, no blood test for you madam – have you heard about the ice caps, though?”
