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Author Fink, Sheri.

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

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014.
©2013

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  LP 362.11 FINK    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  LP 362.11 FIN    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 921 pages (large print) : maps ; 23 cm.
Series Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction
Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.
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.
Awards National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2013
Subject Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)
Disaster hospitals -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Disaster hospitals -- Case studies.
Disaster medicine -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Disaster medicine -- Case studies.
Health facilities -- Louisiana -- Administration.
Forensic pathology -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Large type books.
ISBN 9781410466228 (large print : hardcover)
1410466221 (large print : hardcover)
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