December's Dish is with Sarah James, a Pathologists' Assistant who has since 2017 been the Quality Manager for a partnership of 10 labs separated by 700 km in Northern Ontario, 2 of which are fully Point of Care Testing. James speaks to us about patterns she's noticing across the labs she works in and how the shortages are impacting quality management. This season we are focusing on an issue which impacts all of us here in Ontario: an impending medical laboratory staffing crisis. We’ll hear from small laboratories in rural and remote areas, lab managers preparing for shifting workforces, advocacy groups approaching the province to address the crisis, MLTs and MLA/Ts working on the ground, and many more stories from the frontlines of the shortage.