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I'm Lieutenant-Colonel Leilani Doyle,

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I'm an anesthesiologist
in the Canadian Armed Forces.

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I decided to join in medical school because
I was looking for something a little different,

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maybe a little bit of adventure.

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The money was a bit of a motivation as well.

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Like our civilian colleagues,
I work at the Ottawa Hospital.

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But when there is a deployment,
there is work-up training that is involved,

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and I would be called to do that.

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And then for the deployment, obviously, I would
be gone for the duration of that deployment

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and working with
the Canadian Armed Forces during that time.

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It's incredible
how the camaraderie just comes together,

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that's definitely one thing
that I miss when I'm working in a civilian setting

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because we tend to hang with our own
and maybe are a little bit more in silos,

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whereas on a deployment, we tend
to hang out more as all the specialists together,

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and that makes us work better together, I think.

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There's definitely things that I have done that
I would definitely categorize as exciting -

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flying in the back of a Chinook
while they're doing tactical flying;

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flying in an F-18;

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I've done training such as
basic dive medicine and flight surgeon training,

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which has enabled me to work with other countries;

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I've been on training in Europe,
where I worked with other flight surgeons.

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I don't think I would have ever had
these kinds of opportunities anywhere else,

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and I'm thankful for that.