Opinion: We’re providing medical care to a new type of migrant — the climate migrant
In addition to treating "climate migrants," the medical community must work to stop what is creating them: climate change.
As part of the , my colleagues and I have treated many kinds of migrant over more than two decades: a farm worker who needs prenatal care who must travel every three weeks with the harvest; an asylum seeker struggling with insulin-dependent diabetes who is trying to escape war and violence; an immigrant who needs to travel back home in the midst of his tuberculosis treatment. But we are beginning to see a new type of patient — climate migrants — who I fear we will be seeing more of in the years
