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Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital

Fink, Sheri, author

Overview

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 while the hospital fought for its life and launches into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing. In this book, 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.

• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Subject: Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.) / Disaster hospitals Louisiana New Orleans Case studies. / Disaster medicine Louisiana New Orleans Case studies. / Health facilities Louisiana Administration Case studies. / Forensic pathology Louisiana New Orleans Case studies. / Hurricane Katrina, 2005. / Disaster Planning. / Disaster Medicine.
• ISBN: 9780307718976, 0307718972

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RA975.D57 F56 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE