Transcript: Innovation - 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 s one of the highlights of a career.
- Dr. Bruce Forester:
- It's kind of like the World Series and the Stanley Cup nd 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 that's really unique. 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 for the Olympic family and anybody else that we're tasked to take care of.
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