It’s an often cited statistic that if healthcare was a country, it would be the fifth largest carbon emitter. At The BMJ we want to change that, and move healthcare towards a more sustainable future.

In this week’s episode, we’ll hear about our annual climate edition from two of The BMJ’s editors, Sophie Cook and Juliet Dobson.

We’ll be diving into Cli-Fi and asking how climate fiction can galvanise our collective response to climate change. Our panel includes Howard Frumkin, professor emeritus at University of Washington. Lakshmi Krishnan, internist and Director of Medical Humanities at Georgetown university, and Sarah Grossman, journalist and author of Fire So Wild.

And Finally, Tereza Kasaeva, director of the WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Programme, explains how migration and food insecurity, exacerbated by climate change, are affecting TB - and why, despite effective treatment, there are still over a million deaths from the disease annually.

Our panel's cli-fi book recommendations

A Fire So Wild - Sarah Grossman
The Last Man - Mary W. Shelly
The Broken Earth - NK Jemisin
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Attwood
The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
Olga Dies Dreaming - Xóchitl González
Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Zhang
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

Links

Lakshmi’s references

Fundamental Role of Arts and Humanities in Medical Education
Capable of being in uncertainties’: applied medical humanities in undergraduate medical education
The introduction of medical humanities in the undergraduate curriculum of Greek medical schools: challenge and necessity
The medical humanities at United States medical schools

Olga Dies Dreaming

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