Believe it or not, damages from health-sector pollution are on the same order of magnitude as lives lost each year from preventable medical errors. Therefore, striving to keep patients safe should include efforts to protect public health.
“Ironically, the health sector is one of the worst polluting industries,” said Jodi Sherman, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology at Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, Conn. “You cannot have healthy people on a sick