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Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina - and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.
In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, 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 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 of those caregivers 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. In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are for the impact of large-scale disasters--and how we can do better. A remarkable book, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your understanding of human nature in crisis. One of The New York Times' Best Ten Books of the Year
| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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