S12: Episode 131: Myles Sergeant

About this episode

Hsien and Sammy chat with Dr. Myles Sargeant about reducing healthcare's environmental footprint and the benefits of home-based palliative care.

In this episode, Hsien and Sammy chat with Dr. Myles Sargeant, family physician and planetary health expert. We chat about how healthcare can reduce its environmental footprint with delivering better care, heat islands and why home based palliative care is one of the greenest things we can do. Learn more about Myles work here: https://greenhealthcare.ca/ Visit our website to learn more about our work, check out the book and workbook, view our resources and to join our newsletter: https://www.waitingroomrevolution.com/ Our theme song is Maypole by Ketsa and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

People in this episode

Hosts: Hsien Seow, Samantha Winemaker

Guest: Dr. Myles Sargeant

Topics covered

• healthcare
• environmental impact
• palliative care
• planetary health
• family medicine

Keywords

• healthcare
• environmental footprint
• palliative care
• planetary health
• family physician

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: greenhealthcare.ca, waitingroomrevolution.com

Books & works: Maypole

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