FirstPerson: Dr. Anthony Fong was a temporary health-care worker in Hay River, N.W.T., this fall. He found a backlog of patients and medical tasks, and met residents who were frustrated and afraid.
and an evacuation of the town of Hay River, N.W.T., it was no surprise to me that the Canadian Red Cross was deployed to support evacuees.
Over the course of the summer, residents who needed stitches would have to drive five hours to Yellowknife just to get them. Others chose to leave the territory for care — the closest 24-hour emergency room was a three-hour drive south in High Level, Alta.shot in the chest Another night in the emergency room, I saw a woman in her 20s with an early pregnancy who was suffering abdominal pain. Using ultrasound — a skill that most emergency physicians have — I was able to see that her pregnancy was in the uterus and spared her being flown to Yellowknife to rule out ectopic pregnancy, a potentially life-threatening condition.
One by one, each patient gave me a laundry list of concerns: hernia, diabetes and medication refill; pelvic pain, foot pain and attention-deficit disorder; anxiety, depression and inflammatory bowel disease. Each item was worthy of its own appointment. "This doctor situation — it's terrifying … Like, a friend of mine had a breast cancer infection. It wasn't caught soon enough and she died."
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