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Provincial authorities say they have advised the Public Health Agency of Canada of the issue and an alert has been posted to ensure other jurisdictions are aware of the situation in New Brunswick.

The report emphasized that physicians still don't know protocols around who will be denied care if hospitals are overwhelmed and don't have procedures in place to deal with a care-home outbreak that merits rapid intervention.

Hatt typically sets up the clinic in the parking lot of a local community centre, dispensing with the need for more stringent COVID-19 protocols that would be needed for an indoor operation.

The "gold-standard'' COVID-19 tests need to be processed in a lab, and usually take at least a day to provide results. Rapid tests can be processed in the same place a patient is tested, sometimes in as few as 15 minutes, but they are generally considered less reliable than lab results.

The document discusses seven key CanMEDS-FM roles: the family medicine expert, communicator, collaborator, leader, health advocate, scholar and professional—defining each in the context of Indigenous tradition.

Lakshmi gave every appearance of being perfect. Her marks in undergraduate medical school were exceptional. She was intelligent, well prepared, charming and efficient. Always beautifully dressed, her hair was professionally blown out, her nails never ragged or chipped. Unlike the other often frazzled and sleep-deprived members of her resident cohort, she never looked flustered, exhausted and overworked.