Taking into consideration what I've said in the past about my qualifications, essentially there are a small number of patients who require nuclear medicine scans who have a 20 percent to 30-some percent risk--and I'm taking this from Dr. O'Brien--of further consequences, patients with pulmonary emboli in particular. We also use them for transplant patients in renal situations. These are very important tests, where the implications of poor diagnosis and poor treatment could result in death.
Millions of Canadians being at imminent risk of death through this nuclear medicine shortage is probably an overstatement.