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| - St. Mike's is, first and foremost, an inner city hospital. As such, if you come in through the ER, expect to be hustled through by triage nurses who've seen everything, and to see at least a couple beat up crackheads who are tweaking so hard, they don't even know they're injured. But the standard of care on offer here, belies all of that, and reveals a deeply caring staff of highly trained doctors and nurses, who, like the patients, put up with some of the inner-city issues, because of the opportunity to change lives and help people who need it most.
I had to have emergency neurosurgery here, to relieve a severe spinal cord compression in my neck. Every single staff member that I interacted with, from the clinical assistants all the way up to the neurosurgeon who performed my operation (Dr. Perrin), treated me with respect and dignity and compassion for the fear and uncertainty that spinal surgery naturally brings out.
Nobody wants to end up in the hospital, but if you live in downtown Toronto, it's comforting to know that the closest hospital is a really good choice.
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