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 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.
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 in
America 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.
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