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Five days at Memorial, life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital, Sheri Fink

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Five days at Memorial, life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital, Sheri Fink

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Five days at Memorial

Oclc number

862928529

Responsibility statement

Sheri Fink

Series statement

Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction

Sub title

life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital

Summary

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 to 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 health professionals 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. Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are in America for the impact of large-scale disasters -- and how we can do better

Table Of Contents

Deadly choices -- Reckoning

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5 days at Memorial

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