Green Patients
Follow-up on my Green Medicine post ; there’s a very easy way to reduce the usage of supplies in the hospital: PATIENTS, QUIT GETTING SICK!
No, seriously–if you care about the environment, take your medications and follow-up with your outpatient doctor regularly; you’re less likely develop common diseases that require admission, paperwork, and supplies to diagnose and treat you: congestive heart failure, COPD exacerbations, pneumonias, heart attacks, strokes–the list goes on and on.