Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'transferred'
October 2, 2008
Keiko DesJardins has no history of mental illness, but her visit to Coney Island Hospital Monday morning for a routine GYN exam resulted in her forced transfer to the hospital's psychiatric emergency room. When she told the GYN admissions nurse about her past treatment for mood swings caused by PMS, the nurse "misunderstood and panicked," DesJardins tells NY1. Despite protest from her and her husband, she was forcibly transferred over to the psych ward. When......
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