He will make you look bad and attack your character, damaging you further instead of healing you. Beware of this man

Submitted June 16, 2022

WARNING: THIS MAN HAS NO DIGNITY.
If you're referred to him for an insurance assessment REFUSE and ask for a real doctor. Anyone else will do but this execrable POS.
Do yourself a favor and check his record and disciplinary actions from CPSO.
Worthless doctor and absolute despicable and disgusting human being.

Submitted Oct. 28, 2019

Dr Kirsh is knowledgeable in regards to chronic pain but struggles with mental health issues in conjunction with pain. Makes in appropriate comments such as ‘many people with chronic pain don’t have deprrssion’ in minimizing my struggles. Once I became more informed I now know that most people with chronic pain also have mental health issues as a result. He is untrustworthy and manipulated situations to suit his beliefs. Would say he is more of a rehab specialist for pain but struggles with the chronicity of it and becomes frustrated. He reports suffering from severe headaches and transfers his experiences onto his patients in that he thinks everyone should be able to function as he does which we all know is not the reality for many.

Submitted Nov. 12, 2018

This Dr will make you lose faith in mental health progress and the mental health movement Manning any progress. Very childish and not a bright man.

Submitted Aug. 15, 2018

I would like to thank Dr. Kirsh for his time, patience, and support during a difficult time. My contact with Dr. Kirsh began thru Chedoke Pain Clinic day program in 1999 (WSIB), and continued with individual counseling and a weekly group until I was able to function again without the support. He had the patience of a Saint - He continued to work with me even though I barely spoke. I know my silence frustrated him on a number of occasions, but he always gave me the choice to continue if I was getting something from the experience. Thru this journey, I was able to change my approach to dealing with the issues. I finally understood that to be mentally healthy and to stay mentally healthy over the long haul you need the love and support of other people and that this is what mentally healthy people do without a second thought. (It has been 18 years since my contact with the Clinic ended, but the rewards for being there are evident in all my successes).

Submitted July 21, 2018

Brian Kirsh needs to understand there's real people in his office, often with people that have very severe mental illnesses.

He doesn't have control over his emotions, he displays anger and moves his chair backwards when you say anything he doesn't agree with. He is not emotionally intelligent, a shame as that's a basic skill to have to even begin to empathize and heal people.

His body language is very erratic, at several points during our conversations, he had his foot on the chair resting his cheek on his knee looking at the ground. I've never seen another adult do that, and certainly not one thats a "professional". That language tells the patient, his heart isn't really interested in helping people. I knew from the first meeting I wasn't going to disclose personal details that were contributing to my negative health as it seemed like spilling your heart out to a McDonalds drive through menu.

Please do not harm yourself by going to this person.

When he keeps saying "What is it you want me to do for you?" on several occasions, it's like a brain surgeon asking the patient how he should operate on them, very scary and disappointing to say the least.

I could go on but do I really need to, these examples alone should demonstrate to steer clear of this individual, I will not refer to him as a Doctor.

Submitted July 7, 2018

This idiot is still practicing people be wise steer clear of him!! Why he uses people and he doesn't have the patients best interest in mind only how it will make him look better! I went to that hamilton pain management clinic it was the worst experience in my life! Be wise go else where! Type in his name in the hiltion spectator to read a archive of his wrong doing let alone his shallow ways at the clinic! People there's wannabe doctors and he's is of that one! Do your self a favor find another or just help your self these type doctors are useless!

Submitted June 5, 2018

I have posted something very bad about Dr kirsh. I have reacted out of anger and said things that were not true. When actually. He. Has been my best friend and dr. I said. I was an alcoholic. And I lied. He has helped me to make my life manageable. And I need him I'm bipolar so I react. Stupidly. I apologize to all the people who read my post. I was two faced. And now I need his help. He is a wonderful dr. I've been seeing him for two years. And. I hope he can find it in his heart to forgive me. Cuz I really need him now. More than ever. He puts my life in prospectI've. You don't know what you have till its gon . I was ashamed to see him. After stabbing him in the back. Like that. Dr kirsh. I. Apologize from the bottom of heart. I feel so awful. But. Being. Bipolar. You can expect. That. Lol. Plea

Submitted June 20, 2016

Dr. Brian Kirsh is a no nonsense doctor. He is a true professional, a genuine and an honest individual. He is one of those excellent doctors' that I visited in my lifetime . If you have a genuine problem go to him and you will get the right treatment you would need - Syed

Submitted April 14, 2016

I was diagnosed by Dr kirsh as bipolar and now I have problems getting to jobs that I would love to volenteer cuz his stupid assessment wen I really was an alcoholic n I would go to see him wen I was under the influence so now my medical records stipulated as bipolar ya right I wish I never saw him he ruined my opertunity to do better now that I'm sober and I can't erase his error I'm not taking his stupid meds they make me feel worse than I first went to see him now that I don't take those crazy pills I feet disoriented i feel lot better n my mind is clear thanks for messing me up

Submitted March 16, 2016