Viewpoint: One Health and Climate Change- Malawi Clinicians’ Current and Next Frontiers in lung adenocarcinoma

Adamson S. Muula^1,2,3, Dzinkambani Kambalame^1,4

1. Department of Community and Environmental Health, School of Global and Public Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Malawi
2. Editor-in-Chief, Malawi Medical Journal
3. President, East, Central and Sothern Africa (ECSA) College of Public Health Physicians
4. Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM), Lilongwe, Malawi

Medical doctors and other clinician cadres such as clinical officers and medical assistants are key, certainly not the only, health professionals who need to keep an ear to the ground in understanding, weighing in and contributing to wider health matters. Being a doctor for instance, requires extremely high levels of clinical technical skills, in the core area of medicine (and surgery). There exists of course a constrained view among some, especially in the clinical cadres that a clinician must be effective in the limited confines of the “bed side”. These colleagues believe that the closer to the bedside one is, the more faithful to their calling they are. Those who show interest in broader societal and professional issues such as health systems practice, research (more so if it is not clinical research) and advocacy are viewed as having betrayed the “calling”.