By Emily Dawson It’s not yet 10 a.m. and a man arrives at the St. Michael’s Hospital emergency department with a significant head injury, perhaps from an accident on the skateboard he clutches in his hand. Dazed, he glances around the busy room trying to orient himself. Within moments of his arrival, Colin, a volunteer, is at his side, gently guiding him to a chair and taking his health card to the nurses’ check-in station. People come to emergency departments (EDs) during some of the most stressful and difficult times of their lives, as patients, friends or family members. St. Michael’s Hospital and St. Joseph’s Health Centre – the acute-care sites in the Unity Health Toronto network – operate two of the busiest EDs in
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