Dr. Bushuk with patient Geraldine Wade

Eighty-two year old Geraldine Wade has had her share of surgeries over the years: nine, to be exact. Thanks to the care she received in recent years from Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr. Michael Bushuk and the team at The Scarborough Hospital, now Geraldine can “go out again and not be afraid I’ll fall apart.”

“Surgery (by another doctor at another hospital) on my right knee in 1986 was unsatisfactory. Two years later, my chiropractor suggested I see a specialist, but surgeons at two other hospitals wouldn’t take my case,” Geraldine recalls. “I spent years in pain until I was able to talk Dr. Bushuk into performing the surgery.”

That was November of 2009, and today, Geraldine calls Dr. Bushuk “my hero.

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Being ‘fired’ as a patient of TSH Dr. Sandy Finkelstein was the best news Elizabeth Dutcher could receive. 

“After six months of treatment for a pulmonary embolism, he jokingly told me he didn’t want to see me again,” Elizabeth explains. “He saved my life.”

Elizabeth was taken to the Birchmount campus in November of 2009 in pain and unable to walk. Dr. Finkelstein and his team quickly diagnosed the blood clots and she was put on appropriate medication.

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It’s not easy having a cheerful outlook on life when you’re living with metastatic cancer. But for Scarborough resident Nelda Lozinski, “For now, I get to see the sunrise; I get to see the sunset.”

The 67-year old grandmother was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006 after having a colonoscopy at the Birchmount campus of The Scarborough Hospital. By that time, however, the cancer had already spread to her liver. After an operation on her colon, Nelda was referred to the Oncology Clinic at the General campus for chemotherapy.

That’s where she met Medical Oncologist Dr. Henry Krieger and asked him to take her on as a patient.

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When Ngoc Quang Diep passed away at The Scarborough Hospital’s Birchmount campus last October, her son was so moved by the exceptional care she received by ICU staff and Dr. Subarna Thirugnanam that he donated $2,000 to the hospital.

“Your attentiveness and empathy at all hours of the day were beyond anything we could possibly ask for,” writes Honghi Tran. “We are greatly indebted to your relentless effort to keep her comfortable, and to your patience with our large family, allowing us to visit her freely in those last, precious hours of her life.”

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Dr. Larry Zoberman with Nurse Clinician Sonia Johnson

It takes a special kind of devotion to focus one’s professional career on the needs of palliative care patients and their families. For Dr. Larry Zoberman and the rest of the team in The Scarborough Hospital’s Palliative Care Unit, the medical care is just as important at end-of-life as it is at any other time in a person’s lifespan.

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