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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.
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SHERI FINK is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown, 2013) about choices made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She is a correspondent at the New York Times, where her and her colleagues’ stories on the West Africa Ebola crisis were recognized with the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, the George Polk Award for health reporting, and the Overseas Press Club Hal Boyle Award. Her story “The Deadly Choices at Memorial,” co-published by ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine, received a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and a National Magazine Award for reporting. Her coverage of Hurricanes Sandy and Isaac in 2012 received the Mike Berger Award from Columbia University and the Beat ing Award from the Association of Healthcare Journalists. A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, Fink received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her first book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (PublicAffairs), is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Five Days at Memorial was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award, the American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, and the NASW Science in Society Journalism Book Award. Find her on Twitter at @sherifink, Facebook at sherifinkbooks or visit her website at www.sherifink.net.
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- Publisher : Crown; Reprint edition (January 26, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 592 pages
- International Standard Book Number-10 : 0307718972
- International Standard Book Number-13 : 978-0307718976
- Item Weight : 15.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.16 x 1.27 x 7.98 inches
Reviews From Customers
Sherrie Oakley
I was outraged at the way these healthcare professionals were treated while doing the best they could under an extremely difficult situation
October 16, 2017
Spending most of my life as an ICU nurse I could not stop reading this book until I found out what happened in the end. I was outraged at the way these healthcare professionals were treated while doing the best they could under an extremely difficult situation. It was eye opening to see how many people view things differently than most people who deal with the critically ill and life and death situations daily. It’s very easy for people to look back in hindsight and play armchair quarterback. These professionals did not know the things we know now, such as how long it would actually take to be rescued among many other things.It’s an eye opening account of what can happen under scarcity situations. People in the United States are not accustomed to scarcity of resources especially those involving electricity and gasoline and the tough decisions that accompany these scarcities. Puerto Rico is facing some of these issues now following the recent hurricane. It’s food for thought as this is not the last time these types of decisions will have to be made in the USA and around the world.
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Vicky and Tom
Amazing, infuriating reporting, but not well written
February 25, 2021
A deep investigation of an infuriating story – but not the easiest to get through.
The story shines. The author clearly put in *years* of work, and uses an amazing amount of detail to paint a devastating picture. I plowed the first 200 pages of it in a single sitting, unable to put it down, and walked away changed by what it says about the human race. READ THIS BOOK!
Now, about the writing…. The author absolutely bogs down in all those details, and spends most of the first hundred pages giving a laundry list of characters, biographical details, and scene details (what types of plants were on the lobby, what they ate at the reception, what color the walls were), without any way for the reader to know which parts will be important later.
This is made worse by the fact that, ironically for a newspaper writer, she does not ever give a good 10,000-foot overview, or set a broader scene – “this is the chessboard, and these are the pieces.” Instead, she just jumped straight into introducing you to character after character after character. She does *try* to start with an anecdote that tells the whole story, in the prologue – but then she sets that character down and doesn’t meaningfully return to him until almost 100 pages in.
As a result, I honestly started to skim or even skip the paragraphs about how ‘mamie johnson was known for her colorful draperies….’
A real shame that an editor couldn’t whip this amazing reporting into slightly better shape, but still 100 percent recommend.
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B. Jeffries
a superb thought provoking look at the potential for disaster in all our hospitals.
October 22, 2013
I had not followed Dr Pou’s case when it was occurring, but I was aware that there was a female MD being investigated for practicing euthanasia during Katrina. When this was published, I wanted to learn the story. I have read two other books about medical care during Katrina- the first was CodeBlue, the second a collection of nurse’s stories about working during the storm and its aftermath. Both were interesting, but not challenging in the way Five Days at Memorial has been.
First, let me say that Ms Fink writes very well. Her excellent prose made the story very clear. I was horrified to learn just how dreadful the conditions became at Memorial hospital. This despite reading the two previous books. Reading this, I could smell the fetid odors, feel the heat and humidity and actually imagine myself in the nurse’s shoes. I could clearly understand the terrible dilemma the staff faced as DAYS passed in 100 degree heat with no electricity and the chaos of no plan for rescue of patients, staff and family members stuck in Memorial hospital.
I have been an RN for 37 years, and thankfully have never experienced a disaster. What Fink’s excellent book has done is shocked me into the awareness that a disaster could occur at my hospital. It would most likely be an earthquake here; all our disaster drills focus on an earthquake.
I have never before considered what would we do for our patients after we got them out of a presumably badly damaged building? I work in a free standing psychiatric hospital; fortunately none of our patients are on life support. But all our medical records are computerized. The medicines are dispensed through a electronic computerized dispensing machine. We would not be able to even give anyone a Tylenol, let alone their regular meds. We are on a hill; water is pumped uphill to us, so we wouldn’t have much water. I was just informed there’s some drinking water stored for the patients but none for the staff.
The upshot of my reading this superb book is I am going to ask our upper administration to read Five Days at Memorial. Then I plan to be nosey and find out what are the plans for care for our emotionally fragile patients after the shaking stops. I am feeling very passionate right now about making certain there is a plan for the care of our patients afterwards, and that there is an organized well worked out evacuation program prepared now, before we need it. Where will we go? How? How will we get meds? How will we tell families where their loved one is? What will we do with the few patients who are dangerous?
I thank Ms Fink for opening this nurse’s eyes to the potential for horrific things happening to my patients. Because of this book, I am getting involved to prepare as best I can for what I hope never happens. I HIGHLY recommend this book to hospital nurses and their administrators everywhere. It is also an invaluable eye opener for those who have loved ones with chronic illness, who could face the same fate as the poor souls in LifeCare or Memorial hospital.
This book is a life changer. I will say I was surprised by the legal findings. But I understand how they came to be. I will do my very best to protect my patients from a similar fate, by preparation.
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