PIMICIKAMAK OKIMAWIN — Dr. Praveena Senthoor leans over a patient’s left arm on a warm July evening. She inspects a jagged stab wound, then turns to Dr. Anna Schwartz to confer about the number of sutures required to close the laceration.

It’s the type of injury a plastic surgeon might handle “down south” at an urban hospital, but nearly 600 kilometres north of Winnipeg, at the Cross Lake Nursing Station, physicians and nurses have to be prepared to handle whatever comes their way – be it a nasty virus, broken bones, chronic illness, addiction, stroke, dental abscess or, as in this case, the victim of a knife attack … READ THE WHOLE STORY.