ArticleMedicine, health care, and philosophy2023
"Green informed consent" in the classroom, clinic, and consultation room.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Understanding inhaler users' perceptions of climate change and inhaler carbon footprints: insights from a Canadian survey.BMJ open respiratory research · 2026Article
- Ethical dilemmas in climate change and healthcare delivery: a cross-sectional survey of US patient perspectives.BMC medicine · 2026Article
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- Perspectives of People Receiving Dialysis About Climate Change and Environmentally Sustainable Kidney Care: A Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey in Canada.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2026Article
- Ecological preferences and patient autonomy.Journal of medical ethics · 2025Article
- Establishing and Defining an Approach to Climate Conscious Clinical Medical Ethics.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2025Article
- Patients' Attitudes Towards Integrating Environmental Sustainability Into Healthcare Decision-Making: An Interview Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Primary healthcare's carbon footprint and sustainable strategies to mitigate its contribution: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Patient autonomy in the era of the sustainability crisis.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2024Article
- Green bioethics, patient autonomy and informed consent in healthcare.Journal of medical ethics · 2024Article
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Abstract
The carbon emissions of global health care activities make up 4-5% of total world emissions, placing it on par with the food sector. Carbon emissions are particularly relevant for health care because of climate change health hazards. Doctors and health care professionals must connect their health care delivery with carbon emissions and minimize resource use when possible as a part of their obligation to do no harm. Given that reducing carbon is a global ethical priority, the informed consent process in health care delivery must change. I argue that the expanded role of bioethicists in this climate crisis is to promote and support "green informed consent:" the sharing of climate information with patients, offering options for lower-carbon health care, and accepting the patient's right to decline treatments which are deemed too carbon intensive for their values.
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