The only thing I could add to that is I hope your members understand I'm not an expert in nuclear medicine. I'm one of the people who requisitions nuclear medicine studies as part of my regular work as a hospital internist. I'm a reasonably senior doctor, so I have many colleagues whom I've practised with for a couple of decades, and I'm a working Joe doctor.
To prepare for this appearance I did do a little bit of background research locally yesterday. I spoke with colleagues in the nuclear medicine department and I thought I could share with you that, if I understand their perspective accurately, in British Columbia there was no crisis in December. One of them said it seemed like much ado about nothing, from their point of view.
You might not be aware that they were having daily teleconferences around the province of British Columbia to ensure the supply of radioactive molybdenum, which they obtain from Atomic Energy of Canada, was shared around the province to get the maximum benefit from it.
From my colleague's perspective, if I understood him accurately, patient procedures or tests were being scheduled according to priority, so those that were potentially the most important to patients were still getting done.
That's the same experience I had working in my hospital. For the full month of December, I was puzzled by the news reports and the middle-of-the-night sitting of Parliament, because we certainly didn't perceive any crisis out here.
I think the only other thing that would perhaps put things into perspective from our point of view, at least in British Columbia, is when I met a senior family doctor at the swimming pool last night and told him I was appearing this morning, he said there are real health crises, but this was not one of them.
With that, if there's anything I can enlighten you on by way of questions, I'd be happy to.