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3 tips for preventing heat stroke

  • Written by Gabriel Neal, Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Texas A&M University
imageSeattle experienced record high temperatures in June 2021. AP Photo/John Froschauer

As a primary care physician who often treats patients with heat-related illnesses, I know all too well how heat waves create spikes in hospitalizations and deaths related to “severe nonexertional hyperthermia,” or what most people call “heat...

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