Talk:Woodhull Medical Center

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Requested move 21 April 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 01:03, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Woodhull Medical Center → Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center – I suggest this page be moved provided by the whole name because of the evident difference in few websites. Sunrise In Brooklyn ✉ 05:16, 21 April 2021 (UTC) —Relisting. Bada Kaji (talk) 15:49, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: Much less concise, and no evidence of WP:COMMONNAME usage provided (and seems unnecessary, since most readers probably already understand that mental health treatment is commonly offered by medical centers). — BarrelProof (talk) 17:51, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Death in childbirth

This anesthesiologist at Woodhull, Dmitry Shelchkov, made repeated mistakes in delivering babies, one of which finally caused a fatality in 2020. He lost his license in 2021. This death got extensive media coverage and demonstrations by community activists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/nyregion/anesthesiologist-brooklyn-deaths.html

A Deadly Epidural, Delivered by a Doctor With a History of Mistakes Inspectors found that an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn hospital made numerous errors in administering epidurals. Some were life-threatening. One was fatal.

By Joseph Goldstein

New York Times

Jan. 23, 2023 Nbauman (talk) 17:00, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]