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Ethics Talk: Why Health Care Still Matters in the Face of Humanity’s End

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Dr Joseph G. Hodgkin joins Ethics Talk to discuss why clinicians should care about nuclear proliferation, and Dr Farah Hussain explains why health professions education curricula need to include planetary health.

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Joseph G. Hodgkin, MD is an attending hospitalist physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is co-chair of the Greater Boston chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and a member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. 

Farah Hussain, MD is an associate professor of clinical medicine and the director of Planetary Health at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Interview with Dr Hodgkin was recorded May 14, 2025; interview with Dr Hussain was recorded May 28, 2025.

 

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