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Podcast: Slate Advice
Episode: Well, Now: How to Avoid Heat-Related Illness
Description: It’s a fact that summers around the world are reaching record-breaking temperatures.Heat-related illness and death have hit a crisis point, and staying cool is more important than ever.On this week’s episode of Well, Now we speak with someone living in one of the country's hottest states. Dr. Richard Carmona is a career first responder with more than 50 years of experience caring for people in crisis. A veteran of the U.S. Army as a special forces medic, Carmona also served as the 17th U.S. Surgeon General under President Georg...