Patient Partner, I have learned this over the past year. I have also come to realize the human connection at the heart of good healthcare is not only possible in a pandemic, it is more important than it ever has been — for patients, for caregivers, for staff.I started coming to UHN five years ago.
I was diagnosed at North York General Hospital with neuroendocrine tumour cancer. It is not rare, but it is uncommon. It took the life of Apple CEO Steve Jobs in 2011, and Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul,” in 2018.