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Author:

Fink, Sheri, author.

Title:

Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital / Sheri Fink.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Publisher:

Broadway Books,

Copyright Date:

2016?

Description:

xxvi, 565 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 21 cm

Subject:

Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)
Disaster hospitals--New Orleans--New Orleans--Case studies.
Disaster medicine--New Orleans--New Orleans--Case studies.
Health facilities--Louisiana--Administration--Case studies.
Forensic pathology--New Orleans--New Orleans--Case studies.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)
Hurricane Katrina (2005)
Disaster hospitals.
Disaster medicine.
Forensic pathology.
Health facilities--Administration.
Louisiana.
Louisiana--New Orleans.
2005
Case studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [483]-545) and index.

Contents:

Deadly choices -- Reckoning.

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.

ISBN:

0307718972
9780307718976

OCLC:

(OCoLC)866615130

Locations:

EXPC755 -- Akron Public Library (Akron)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)

YYPC162 -- Mechanicsville Public Library (Mechanicsville)