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Homeless are 27 times more likely to visit emergency room for heat illness, study shows
Last summer, Taylor Weckstein was driving around rural New Mexico in a van delivering medical care to the homeless in the sweltering heat.
The Harvard Medical School graduate came across people with severe dehydration, kidney disease, and third-degree burns from being seared by the pavement, she recalled.
'Honestly, it was pretty horrific,' she said.
