In the north, there have been ongoing concerns about the tenure of physicians in communities. For example, in Inuvik there has been a medical clinic and they have been

providing physicians for a few years. Before that, many years ago, the doctors or physicians used to be hired by the health board or the hospital at that time, and, in many cases, they didn't stay very long. It was very difficult to build up a doctor/patient relationship because every time you went to the clinic, there was a new doctor there. My concern is what is being done to prevent this sort of thing and to entice physicians to stay in the north longer?