Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

The First "Climate Change" Diagnosis Is Here. It Will Not Be The Last A doctor in British Columbia has taken an unprecedented step, and actually diagnosed an elderly patient as “suffering from climate change”. But why? And what does that mean for the future? by Kit Knightly Doctor Kyle Merritt, an attending physician at an emergency department in Nelson BC, added “climate change” as a contributing factor to the medical issues of one of his patients. And, in so doing, has achieved a remarkable and troubling world first. The first-ever medical diagnosis of “climate change”. Dr Merritt said in an interview with Glacier Media: "If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just gonna keep falling further and further behind,” the emergency room doctor told Glacier Media. […] It’s me trying to just… process what I’m seeing.” The entire situation raises some interesting questions. Does it make medical sense? Of course it doesn’t. He diagnosed her as “suffering from climate change”. You can’t do that, it is insane. That’s like diagnosing someone who was struck by lightning as “suffering from the effects of rain” or a person having a heart attack as “suffering from the effects of Mcdonald’s”. …actually, it’s worse than that. At least my examples have a distinct cause-and-effect relationship, and there are no scientific papers suggesting Mcdonald’s doesn’t actually exist. The patient in question is over 70, asthmatic, diabetic and suffering from heart failure. She’s very, very sick…no matter the climate. Even if Dr Merritt can somehow trace a decline in her health due to the weather (and there’s no evidence at all that he can), actually diagnosing it is completely bonkers. …so why do it? Continued (and with an important afterword): https://losthorizons.com/N/172.htm#4