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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.
Feather River Hospital staff work in a triage area while evacuating patients as the Camp Fire moves through the area on Nov. 8, 2018, in Paradise, Calif.

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

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