[5] Dutt has practiced medicine in Ontario, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.
[3] She is currently the Medical Officer of Health for Central and Western Newfoundland and Labrador and a family physician at the Ally Centre of Cape Breton.
She has served on the board of directors of Doctors Nova Scotia,[6] chaired Canadian Doctors for Medicare,[7] and has been the medical officer for three provinces and territories in Canada:[8] Nova Scotia,[6] Newfoundland and Labrador,[9] and Northwest Territories[3] She was the Executive Director of Upstream not for profit from 2017 to 2018.
[6] She was one of many doctors who signed an open letter to Canadian federal Minister of Finance Bill Morneau calling for tax reform.
[6] Dutt lives with her son[1][10] in Sydney River, Nova Scotia.