Large print book
Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital
Edition
Large print edition.
Publication Information
Detroit : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014.
Physical Description
921 pages (large print) : maps ; 23 cm.
Summary
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. 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.
Subjects
- Disaster hospitals > Louisiana > New Orleans > Case studies.
- Disaster medicine > Louisiana > New Orleans > Case studies.
- Health facilities > Louisiana > Administration > Case studies.
- Forensic pathology > Louisiana > New Orleans > Case studies.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
- Large type books.
- Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)