Actic Bay: population 700

So I haven't even received my official orientation yet, but I've already gotten several calls, mostly from the GPs in the ER for advice on kids.
Last night, I get a call at midnight from the nursing station in Arctic Bay (northern tip of Baffin Island) for a sick baby that needed transport. So off I go with the medivac (medical evacuation) team (pilot, me, paramedic) to Arctic Bay. It was definately tiring, but I reminded myself this is why I came to do this rotation, to get experiences like this. It was a 3.5hour flight one-way, and once we get there, it's another 30min drive on gravel road to the settlement (literally, 20 or so houses along the bay).
I'm impressed what the nurses there can do with the little that they have - blood work, cultures, XRs, IV antibiotics, oxygen. I wish I could better describe in words how beautiful and isolated the village felt, and the urban snob in me am bewildered that non locals choose work here. While we were getting the baby, I was also asked to assess another child in the clinic "he looks ok, doesn't need transport now, please see him again tomorrow."
The weather the whole time was bright and sunny. I have yet to experience complete darkness here.
After settling in the baby and mom in Iqaluit, I finally got to go home at 3pm, having been up since 9am the pevious day (during which I did a 5hour hike).
Good thing I brought my camera (though I am convinced that no lens can capture a moment in time as well as the human eye).
It is unlikely that I'll cross the arctic circle again.