Brown Emergency Medicine
Providence, RI
Joined June 2015
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Kate Moretti retweeted
Please help fight a dangerous proposal to expand fossil fuel infrastructure in Port of #ProvidenceRI by signing this petition! It takes <30 secs and helps show that the community doesn't want giant, out-of-state corporations poisoning our air and water! actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
Kate Moretti retweeted
Buried deep in the news below much noise is the existential issue of our time. Don’t be fooled. Climate change will swamp all other issues as time goes on
Carbon dioxide spikes to critical record, halfway to doubling preindustrial levels washingtonpost.com/weather/2…
An Education Imperative: Integrating Climate Change Into the Emergency Medicine Curriculum dx.doi.org/10.1002/aet2.1054…
Kate Moretti retweeted
Thank you for the opportunity to contribute with some amazing coauthors! @ResaELewiss @GitaPensaMD @JessWernerMD #DrChenHe @AndyMusits
Honored to partner with The Permanente Journal on a special on Women in Medicine. Thanks to all who contributed & especially to Sr. Editor Dr. Nicole Tran. Cover art @DrKathrynKo Authors @ConniesMedicine @BusyMomMD @ElizaChinMD @MollieMarr thepermanentejournal.org/iss… @permanentej
"We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing changes instantly: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it." -Atwood.
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Climate Change and Health Starter Guide in SAEM PULSE July-August 2020 issuu.com/saemonline/docs/sa… via @issuu @CaitlinRublee
Kate Moretti retweeted
Join us each Friday in July for our #CME webinar series, “COVID-19, Climate, Equity." We'll discuss environmental concerns that have a critical health component, including #airquality and #heat, and the impact they have on patients. Learn more here: bit.ly/31tb0x6
The postal service is vital to our democracy and also they bring us cute little presents. Give them proper funding! #MailedIt
Kate Moretti retweeted
Have you ever taken a swig of coffee, gazed wistfully into the distance, and pined for easy access to over 10k peer-reviewed papers on climate change and health? If your answer is "Who hasn't?" then go to @NIEHS Literature Portal for sweet, sweet relief. ow.ly/o2Vk50AlM5e
This is why we can't back burner climate change now. I know everyone is overwhelmed, but we don't have the space or time.
Mass Extinctions Are Accelerating, Scientists Report nytimes.com/2020/06/01/scien…
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Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction advances.sciencemag.org/cont…
I have been hesitant to bring up climate change, thinking public discourse did not have room for another crisis...but cc IS a crisis. Now.
Also:
It is worsening the COVID pandemic.
It more gravely impacts minority populations.
We need to yell about this. It cannot wait.
Family Affair: Coronavirus and the Climate Crisis | Think Global Health thinkglobalhealth.org/articl…
Kate Moretti retweeted
We, the medical community, see acts of excessive force as a public health emergency that undermines our ability to protect and care for our patients.
We stand with our nation in calling for reforms on the use of deadly force and addressing structural racism and its...
This. Now.
A lesson on physician activism from Malawi’s legendary Dr. John Chiphangwi statnews.com/2020/05/06/less… via @statnews
Kate Moretti retweeted
We're looking for Rhode Island's PPE. Donate today at 405 Promenade St. (RI Blood Center). #clearoutyourbarn