Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital / Sheri Fink.
By: Fink, Sheri
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TextPublisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]Edition: First edition.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xviii, 558 pages : map ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780307718969.Subject(s): 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 | Hospitals -- Louisiana -- New OrleansDDC classification: 362.1109763/35 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 362.1109763 F495 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003484912 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Deadly choices -- Reckoning.
Fink 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. 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. Fink 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.
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