British Columbia—A Canadian doctor has diagnosed a woman with "climate change" after she came to hospital with breathing problems.

Dr. Kyle Merritt came to the unprecedented conclusion after finding that a recent heatwave and poor air quality in Nelson, British Columbia, contributed to the 70-year-old's deteriorating health.

British Columbia was hit by a heatwave this summer. This was closely followed by wildfires that left behind a thick smoke across the province.

Dr. Merritt found the 70-year-old's existing conditions had worsened after examining her at the end of the summer period. He told Glacier Media:

"She has diabetes. She has some heart failure… she lives in a trailer, no air conditioning. "All of her health problems have all been worsened. And she's really struggling to stay hydrated."

So... In what's thought to be a world first, after assessing "the underlying cause", he wrote on a patient chart: "climate change".

"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," he said.

Others in the hospital shared Dr Merritt's opinion and he was able to form an internal group of about 40 medical professionals called Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health.

The group's message of concern has been echoed by other progressive health professionals around the world.

A report produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the run up to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow detailed links between climate and health.

WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: "The same unsustainable choices that are killing our planet are killing people."

News of the 70-year-old's diagnosis comes after Dr. Merritt and Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health aired their concerns to politicians at a protest in the city of Victoria last week.

Kelly Lau, a doctor-turned-activist who was among those demonstrating, said: "This is about moving forward in a way that saves lives."

Commentary

As one who had a heat stroke in 1995, I agree that weather can cause health issues, but climate change is no more a medical diagnosis than is poverty. Both can contribute to medical issues, but they’re not a diagnosis.
I wonder what kind of drugs they prescribe for climate change? Liberal Adventists should look into this; at a minimum it could present an investment opportunity.
This is weird stuff. I mean, if someone went to a concert and got COVID, you wouldn’t write “concert” as the cause of their illness. Or would you?
I wonder if this woman is suffering from ecological grief? (Ezekiel 14.17). And, is the poor doctor suffering from Greta Syndrome? We should pray for both of these poor people.
Alternative headline “B.C. Doctor Sets Virtue-Signalling Record.” We almost used this. It fits.
Greta Thunberg, the Pope, and a million other devotees of Gaia have gotten rid of God without getting rid of religion; they worship the nature goddess of mother earth, and thus they view modernity and coal power plants as the original sin.

Rejoice always.

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”So He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east. And He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here?” (Ezekiel 8:15-17).