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ERNEST HEW Obituary
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for ERNEST HEW
6 Entries
Dr. Rick Parascandalo
Yesterday
Ernie was my mentor and teacher. His personal qualities and work habit definitely became a part of my practice. I too completed a great, successful career in anesthesia graduating in 1986. Ernie on wheels was something I never forgot...rest in peace...you made many patients and trainees lives better..
Simon Zembowski
March 9, 2026
best pain doctor for migraines I was referred in the last 10 years.
He was always available if you were in panic.
Thank you from Simon.
Gloria Valentine
March 8, 2026
I miss him. I will never forget him.
Dr. Hew was the most compassionate, caring doctor I´ve ever known
in all the 86 years I´ve lived.
He treated me with injections for severe back pain over the last few years and later looked after my medications.
He would always follow up with a phone call. Other patients told me how he did the same, checking
to see how we were doing.
No other doctor matches the true, caring kindness and compassion Dr. Hew had for his patients.
I thought of him as a dear friend. I see his sweet smile before me as I write.
He was funny and charming and I loved and trusted him completely.
A few years ago I began sending him Sabbath greetings on Fridays, and he always replied. Asking how I was doing and wishing me well.
When his emails stopped I called and Sophie told me he was unwell.
I became ill, starting last fall , and moved out of Canada at the end of December, to be with my son and his family in Israel.
But I didn´t forget to write dear Dr. Hew every week.
I was worried when I didn´t
hear from him again and suspected the worst.
Just a few minutes ago I was talking about him with my son, who met him at one of my treatment sessions.
And decided to look him up on line. Fearing what I might find.
I was wasn´t surprised somehow to find this obituary but nevertheless shocked and deeply saddened to find out with certainty that his blessed being is no longer with us.
To all of you who mourn this great loss :
Words cannot begin to express a grief that is inconsolable.
I send you my deepest sympathies. My heart is with you.
It is a great loss to all of us out here who loved him too.
You have been privileged to have shared his life.
It was a magnificent one.
We shall never see his like again. He was a ONE OF A KIND.
May he rest in the arms of GOD.
Gloria Valentine
Madison Goldberger
January 8, 2026
As a new anesthesiologist, I met Dr. Hew at the endoscopy clinic. He immediately made me feel comfortable and was eager to answer any questions I had and to share his experience. I´m very sorry for your loss
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Andrew Sanders
December 31, 2025
I want to share an act of greatness that was probably typical of Dr. Hew. My wife Judith, recently departed, had a knee replacement surgery at a Toronto hospital, about eight years ago, where an orthopedic surgeon, better not to mention his name, botched up the operation, apparently forgot to cement in the lower part of the metal replacement. Judith suffered immense pain upon each step, was almost incapable of walking. She went back to that surgeon and, eventually, also to his boss; both of them lied to her, assured her that the problem was temporary, it would heal itself. Subsequent x-rays at two other hospitals showed that these were lies, it was clearly a surgeon´s serious mistake. It started to look as if Judith would be permanently disabled, confined to a wheelchair. My nephew´s wife, Janice, brought this to the attention to her father, Ernest. He, in turn, immediately contacted the chief orthopedic surgeon of Mt. Sinai Hospital, asked him to help. That chief surgeon was already semi-retired but examined Judith and realized the big mistake. Then and there, he asked, almost ordered, the new chief surgeon of the hospital to correct the situation, repair the damage through new surgery. Despite typical long waits, the new chief surgeon arranged for the new surgery in two days. It was successfully completed; in another two days Judith was at home, and in a week, she was walking normally. As I wrote, without Ernest´s help, she may have become a permanent cripple. I am eternally grateful to him.
Andrew Sanders
Dr. Anna Day
December 20, 2025
My condolences to the Hew family. Ernie was my hero and mentor in the ICU at Mount Sinai Hospital for over 10 years..he was my teacher and then my colleague. He was so busy at work that all his children slept in his bedroom when he finally came home! He was a pioneer in anaesthesia and intensive care in those days and it is not surprising he continued to be a trail blazer in health care. May his memory be for a blessing.
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