Shortages, Supply Chains, and Sustainability: Where Does Our Scope of Practice End?

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Residents' Review| June 2023 Shortages, Supply Chains, and Sustainability: Where Does Our Scope of Practice End? Federico Ciardi, MA (Oxon), MBBS; Federico Ciardi, MA (Oxon), MBBS Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Briana Kossbiel, MD Briana Kossbiel, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor June 2023, Vol. 87, 35–36. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000938868.62560.20 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Federico Ciardi, Briana Kossbiel; Shortages, Supply Chains, and Sustainability: Where Does Our Scope of Practice End?. ASA Monitor 2023; 87:35–36 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000938868.62560.20 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: scope of practice Extreme climate events from rising temperatures and sea levels are increasing in frequency. Such events are altering complex interdependent pathways – both natural and manmade. While there is direct, acute, and obvious injury to the environment, there are also chronic, indirect effects by the way climate change alters disease patterns. Eventually, the consequences lead to increased costs for an already exasperated medical system, with an inability to meet essential health care needs. Equipment shortages and supply chain interferences are more prevalent as weather events slow production and transport processes, especially for pharmaceuticals. This has been seen recently with Winter Storm Uri in Texas, the drought of the Rhine River, flooding in central China, Hurricane Ida in Louisiana, and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico (asamonitor.pub/3Uat9cy; Marit Econ Logist 2022;24:489-506). However, shortages are not just seen in material goods. Climate change has promoted a maldistribution of the health care... You do not currently have access to this content.