The top of the Bush Pilot's monument in Yellowknife on a winter morning; January 13, 2020. | SillyBunnies via Wikipedia

The Northwest Territories is a vast 1.3-million square kilometres, inhabited by a mere 46,000 people. 

The entire territory has about 60 physicians, putting its physician-to-population ratio at about half the national average.

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