Nazanin Meshkat
writer
English
About Nazanin Meshkat
Nazanin Meshkat is an academic emergency physician and freelance writer/journalist based in Toronto. She reports on health stories and the determinants of health including the growing impacts of the climate and environmental pollution.
‘People are going to experience frostbite, people are going to have more amputations’
People without homes come to the emergency department for shelter and warmth but when hospital social workers try to help them, there are no shelter beds available.
Is your asthma inhaler ruining the planet?
“Many patients on these puffers do not even need them,” says Dr. Kimberly Wintemute, a family physician who leads the Toronto Academic Health Science Network.