Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

by Fink, Sheri
ISBN: 9780307718976
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Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina--and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.

In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and maintain life amid chaos.

After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several of those caregivers faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths.

Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing.

In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are for the impact of large-scale disasters--and how we can do better. A remarkable book, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your understanding of human nature in crisis.

One of The New York Times' Best Ten Books of the Year

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Fink, Sheri
  • ISBN: 9780307718976
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.00 x 1.30
  • Number Of Pages: 592
  • Publication Year: 2016

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  • A gripping tale of post Katrina

    Stacy P. - 3 years 3 months ago

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, staff, patients, and local residents who were riding out the storm in New Orleans' Memorial Hospital found themselves trapped with rising floodwaters, no electricity, limited supplies, and temperatures of 100 degrees plus. This is the story of a doctor and two nurses accused of the unthinkable, euthanizing patients who they deemed too sick too critically ill to evacuate.

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