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[[The Doctors' Olympic Games]]
[[Narrator] We have 82 countries in the winter games and 42 in the para-Olympics.]
[[Dr. Jack Tounton] That's 66,000 people that we'll be looking after.]
[[Dr. Ross Brown] I've been I think preparing for the Games all my life.]
[[Dr. Mike Wilkinson] Volunteering at the Olympics as a team physician]
[is one of the highlights of a career.]
[[Dr. Bruce Forester] It's kind of like the World Series and the Stanley Cup]
[and the Super Bowl all rolled up into one.]
[[Dr. Ross Brown] This is the dream.]
[[Narrator] Working at the Olympics is an opportunity to be part of a team ]
[It involves physicians from all over the world. They really want to be here.]
[They not only want to work with the equipment and the uniqueness of the environment,]
[but they want to do their part to support the Olympics and the Para-Olympics.]
[[Dr. Jack Tounton] So how do we operate that?]
[Well, we base it in both villages, Vancouver and Whistler, out of a 10,000 square foot ]
[polyclinic in the Olympic language.]
[[Narrator] A polyclinic is the entire facility here,]
[ including the large tent, the support trailer,]
[the CT scanners, the MR, all that fantastic equipment that GE has managed to get here.]
[[Dr. Jack Tounton] It's like a mini hospital.]
[We've got an emergency ward, and we've got trauma bay, and then we have mobile medical.]
[[Narrator] The mobile medical unit, which is really a part of the polyclinic,]
[is the nucleus of the medical support for the Olympic village.]
[[Dr. Mike Wilkinson] This is the entrance to the mobile medical unit or mobile surgical unit.]
[It will literally be our emergency department and assessment area.]
[It will be the holding area if we have to go into the operating room, the pre-op.]
[It will be the post-op recovery area.]
[It will be the ICU and the cardiac care unit.]
[That's quite an incredible piece of machinery, I must say.]
[So it's everything, but it's just a trailer in a box.]
[[Dr. Ross Brown] The key to make it work are the people and the pro senses.]
[[Narrator] We're all pulling on the same rope.]
[We're all there for the same reason, to help our clinicians with their athletes ]
[and really get gold medal performances.]
[Hopefully, the biggest thrill is never having to use our services, ]
[but we know we're going to need them.]
[[Dr. Ross Brown] And we'll deliver the best care that we possibly can ]
