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Exposure to extreme heat can cause significant health problems. Responding to those problems comes with a financial cost — for patients and for medical systems. In this excerpt from the Living Planet series of Deutsche Welle, or DW, The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler and DW producer Sam Baker unpack how much climate-driven heat waves are costing us — especially in places that weren’t designed to handle the change.