TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fink,Sheri
TI  - Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
SN  - 9780307718976
AV  - RA975.D57 F56 2016
U1  - 362.1109763/35 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Broadway Books
KW  - Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)
KW  - fast
KW  - Hurricane Katrina (2005)
KW  - Disaster hospitals
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - New Orleans
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Disaster medicine
KW  - Health facilities
KW  - Administration
KW  - Forensic pathology
KW  - Hurricane Katrina, 2005
KW  - Disaster Medicine
KW  - Hospitals
KW  - Forensic Pathology
KW  - Cyclonic Storms
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Case Reports
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-545) and index; Deadly choices -- Reckoning
N2  - Here the author, a physician and reporter, 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. She 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. She unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, of a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing. In this book, she 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
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