Shaken by heatwaves, US clinics get tips on staying cool

Nags Head, North Carolina: The day a patient collapsed out in the parking lot, nurse practitioner Alexis Hodges realized she needed a plan to deal with the extreme heat that has overwhelmed US community health clinics from the East Coast to California this summer.

Hodges, who works in North Carolina, said about half of the patients she saw in July had heat-related conditions, as soaring temperatures in much of the United States fueled…