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Renee Salas, MD, MPH, MS, on intersection of health and the climate crisis

AMA's Moving Medicine series features physician voices and achievements. Learn more in this discussion with Renee N. Salas, MD, MPH, MS, on what physicians need to know about the climate crisis.

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