Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ * A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina--and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice--from a Pulitzer Prize-winning physician and reporter

"An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit."--Dallas Morning News

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs.

Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death?

Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters--and how we can do better.

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star

WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award

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ISBN 13	9780307718976
ISBN 10	0307718972
Title	Five Days at Memorial
Author	Sheri Fink
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2016-01-26
Number of pages	592
Prizes	Winner of American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award 2014, Winner of Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2014, Winner of Lukas Prize Project: J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2014, Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2013, Winner of PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction 2015, Winner of Ron Ridenhour Book Award 2014, Winner of SIBA Book Award 2014, Winner of Science in Society Journalism Awards 2014, Short-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2014, Short-listed for New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism 2014
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