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"Within this budget, we are required to provide a range of public services including taking strategic legal cases, providing advice to government on critical issues such as Bruit, carrying out investigations as well as promotion and education," he told BBC News NI.

This kind of noise, called a bruit, is caused by turbulence in the blood flowing through an artery.

It being Canada, of course, the message to make noise was reiterated in French: “Faites du bruit!”

He said that when the Mayo Clinic doctor started looking for a bruit at the site of the pain, he remembered this unusual diagnosis.

The doctor gently placed his stethoscope over the spot, listening for what’s called a bruit, the noise blood makes when its flow is turbulent.