Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
By Sheri Fink
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One of the New York Times’s Best Ten Books of the Year Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Winner of the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the 2014 American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award (Public/Healthcare Consumers), a 2014 Science in Society Journalism Award, and the SIBA 2014 Book Award for Nonfiction An ALA Notable Book, finalist for the NYPL 2014 Helen Bernstein Award, shortlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award and the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal An NPR “Great Reads” Book, a Chicago Tribune Best Book, a Seattle Times Best Book, a Time Magazine Best Book, Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Nonfiction Book, a Christian Science Monitor Best Book, and a Kansas City Star Best Book 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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Summary
Summary
A #1 New York Times bestseller
Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
Longlisted for the 2015 PEN Literary Award
Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
A 2013 New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year
New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books, 2013
A 2013 New York Times Editor’s Choice
A #1 Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2013 for Nonfiction
A Wall Street Journal bestseller
A 2013 Time Magazine Best Book for Nonfiction
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Winner of the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Current Interest
A 2013 National Book Award Finalist
A 2013 People Magazine’s “Great Reads” for New Nonfiction
A Chicago Tribune Top Ten Book of 2013
A Kansas City Star Top 100 Book of 2013
A Seattle Times Best Book of 2013
NPR’s Great Reads, 2013
A Christian Science Monitor Book of the Year for 2013
A Barnes & Noble Best Book for September 2013
A 2014 Carnegie Medal for Literature Finalist in Ficiton
A Publishers Weekly bestseller
A 2014 ALA Notable Book for Adult Nonfiction
Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books, 2013
A 2013 BookPage Best Book
A 2013 Booklist Editors’ Choice for Adult Books
An Amazon Top 100 Book of 2013
A September 2013 LibraryReads Pick
One of the New York Times’s Best Ten Books of the Year
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the 2014 American Medical Writers
Association Medical Book Award (Public/Healthcare Consumers), a 2014 Science in Society Journalism Award, and the SIBA 2014 Book Award for Nonfiction
An ALA Notable Book, finalist for the NYPL 2014 Helen Bernstein Award, shortlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award and the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal
An NPR “Great Reads” Book, a Chicago Tribune Best Book, a Seattle Times Best Book, a Time Magazine Best Book, Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Nonfiction Book, a Christian
Science Monitor Best Book, and a Kansas City Star Best Book
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.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Reviews
Reviews
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Lest we forget
- I left NOLA only 5 days before Katrina arrived. My daughter-in-law worked at Childrens. I have been an RN for a good many years. I found it easy to feel the reality of the situations people found themselves in: exhaustion, without a sense of hope, morally challenged, wanting to place blame but knowing that it was a useless exercise, totally overwhelmed. The realities are portrayed starkly and with the persistence of an anger that will never go away, and with the sense that the self blame will never go away either. Everyone needs to become immersed in this tale. Those horrors could happen anywhere, but for differing causative factors. Nowhere are we as a people ready to avoid the sequelae of being transformed from a 21st century hospital setting to a primitive one in hours or days without a lot more awareness and preplanning. And how can we continue to believe in rescue by governmental agencies when budget cuts have made their resources impotent. It is impossible to read/listen to this book without becoming personally affected.
Details
Details
Available Formats : | Digital Download |
Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
Runtime: | 17.56 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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