Amid Rising Global Temperatures, Doctors and Nurses Focus in on Extreme Heat

A new alert system prompts clinicians to talk about heat with patients, who often don’t realize the risks they face.

An important email appeared in the inboxes of a small group of health care workers north of Boston as this summer started. It warned that local temperatures were rising into the 80s. An 80-plus-degree day is not sizzling by Phoenix standards. Even in Boston, it wasn’t high enough to trigger an official heat warning for the wider public. But research has shown that those temperatures…

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