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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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Five days at Memorial

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

846520402

Responsibility statement

Sheri Fink

Sub title

life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital

Summary

Here the author, a physician and reporter provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She 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. She unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, of a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing. In this book, she 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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