Health Professionals for Clean Air Stories
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Robert J. Blount, M.D., MAS, Access to clean air is critical. As a pulmonologist I am motivated by helping to alleviate my patients’ suffering from asthma, COPD, lung cancer, pneumonia, and other lung diseases that can be caused by and exacerbated by dirty air.
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Peggy Pennoyer, M.D., FAAAI, We need policymakers as partners to achieve healthy air. It’s hard telling my patients they shouldn’t exercise outside on bad air quality days.
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Ashley E. McClure, MD, FACP, Clean air policies are healthy climate policies. As a primary care doctor, I have taken an oath to prevent sickness and to protect human health and safety.
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Amanda Millstein, MD, FAAP, The climate crisis is a health crisis, specifically for our kids. The climate crisis is here and it is harming our health and the health of our children.
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Juanita Mora, MD, We must support action on climate change to protect Latino community.
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Bernadette Mae Longo, PhD, R.N., PHNA-BC, FAAN, We are all in this together. Human health is linked to the environment. As a nurse epidemiologist, I see the mounting evidence of the association between air pollution, accelerated climate change, and adverse health effects.
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Jessie Weiler, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, OCN, We must unite together to protect our patients. As I walk among the towering trees, listening quietly, breathing deep the moist air, I am reminded of the interconnected web of life.
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Mallory Higginbotham, BA, RRT, RRT-ACCS, Let’s all work to promote clean air. It is my role as an educator and respiratory practitioner to teach students and patients about the importance of monitoring the air quality reports.
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David Hill, MD, Climate change is a public health emergency. Climate change is a public health emergency, and poses a dire threat to lung health.
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Glenn R. Singer, MD, FACP, FCCP, FAASM, Right now, the air we breathe is in crisis. Health care professionals have a responsibility to help diagnose and treat patients, and to help the community at large when there is a crisis.
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Erika Maria Moseson, MD, MA, Climate change is (quite literally) sickening. As a lung and ICU doctor, my patients’ health is threatened by unhealthy air and climate change, and now COVID-19.
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Randolph J. Lipchik, MD, MPH, We must not underestimate the need for clean air. As a physician, I see how the climate and air quality affects my patients with lung disease, every day.
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Christine A. Hamilton, DHSc, RRT, I strongly urge a united front on climate change. Climate change poses serious threats to the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.
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John S. Yordy, M.D., Ph.D., , Preserve and protect our clean air. We all depend upon the air we breathe for life.
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Ying Li, MD, Climate change harms health.