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Posted Sat Nov 22 2008: from Living on Earth:


	Green Hospitals http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1227372100 Critics say hospital buildings and food are enough to make you sick. Today there's a growing movement in health care to get hospitals to green their facilities and, as host Bruce Gellerman reports, it's transforming the medical community... "From bedpans and surgical gloves to operating rooms and MRI machines, hospitals are enormously expensive to build, equip and operate. And when it comes to making life saving decisions, administrators aren't about to worry about buying energy-saving devices. Still, medicine is starting to use the power of the purse to go green."

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'Doc Jim says:

From hypocritical to Hippocratic....go green!