From new plant-leaning hospital menus tofewer surgical gloves , gas-spewing inhalers and single-use syringes, health-care professionals are finding ways to combat waste and pollutants.
The program introduced lunch and dinner options including coconut chicken curry, soy-based sloppy joes and a Korean-style gochujang bowl made with beans to incorporate sustainable and mostly locally sourced ingredients. Sustainability efforts by Choosing Wisely Canada, which also involves Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital, have focused on reducing "low value" lab tests, treatments and procedures.
"In the ICU, they use 100 pairs of gloves per day, per patient. People put on gloves all the time, even to walk into the room and press a button on a machine," Levinson said.Recommendations by the Canadian Orthopaedic Association call on operating-room staff to separate uncontaminated waste from materials that are contaminated and must be incinerated, producing more greenhouse gas emissions.
When followed up with a standardized test, it turns out that about a third of Canadians diagnosed with asthma in a clinical exam do not actually have it, and nearly twice that many are incorrectly diagnosed with COPD, she said. "I think there's good value for the environment from these recommendations," Leamon said from Port aux Basque, N.L. "Patients should be involved because they are the users of the health-care system."
Medical students are also learning about climate-change advocacy as part of Choosing Wisely Canada's program called STARS — Students and Trainees Advocating for Resource Stewardship — which Silverstein helped launch when he was in medical school in 2015. Lizzie Burbeary endured months of strange symptoms such as lumps on her head, hair loss, migraines and fatigue before the truth came out.
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