Think again.
This book is a mess, a train wreck kind of mess.
You ask yourself, "What would I do in such dire circumstances? Those who did better were those who didn’t wait idly for help to arrive.
September 10th 2013 Five Days At Memorial is a powerful, balanced and clearly written (if slightly dry) account of the lives lost – or irrevocably altered – in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina hit. Public opinion at the time was squarely behind the hospital staff, largely because we thought that the opportunistic former sheriff was blaming the very people, who saved so many lives, of not being even more heroic. And that is my favorite thing about this book. We’d love your help. It was hard to read sometimes, but utterly riveting. Sheri Fink’s reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Award, among other journalism prizes.
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Conditions at Memorial were terrible, exacerbated by terrible to non-existent planning and very little support from Tenent, the corporate owner of the hospital.
I listened to the audio book while commuting and couldn't wait to get back in my car.
It challenged my thinking over and over.Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath was a horrible disaster, and the pictures haunted our television screens for days. Thus I do not think this is a fair or neutral assessment of what happened during this tragedy.
If "Five Days at Memorial" were a novel, critical reaction undoubtedly would be overwhelmingly negative: It is too far-fetched.
I get that its a comedy show, but one must question the wisdom of Fink's decision to go on Comedy Central to promote the book - unless her ONLY goal is to make as much money as possible off of the tragic events surrounding Katrina. Think again. Fink does a remarkable job of remaining, for the most part, neutral -- and yet there are heroes and villains (often in the same person) and no shortage of drama. *I am from the New Orleans area and was one of the many thousands who evacuated for Hurricane Katrina.
Verified Purchase.
A must read.Fink takes on a story with moral and ethical overtones- what killed 45 patients at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans in the days following Hurricane Katrina, in her incredibly fascinating Five Days at Memorial. This book contains and emotionally gripping and fascinating tale. It challenged my thinking over and over.What would you do if you were caught in a flood in a hospital and knew your last nine helpless patients would not be evacuated but would in all likelihood drown? These are not the even-tempered literary cadences of her Pulitzer Prize-winning article about the crisis at Memorial that appeared in The New York Times Magazine in … A brave, hauntingly stark account of Katrina and its effect on a hospital in peril.
Or something else?” Fink is an amazing story-teller.View a two minute video demonstration of BCP Builder’s Online Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of In books like this, with topics like this there are loads of details that the author has to pare down and put in an order that the reader can follow.
Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. The first part, titled "Deadly Choices", focuses on the events that occurred at Memorial Medical Center over the "five days" referred to in the book's title: August 28 – September 1, 2005.The second part, titled "Reckoning", discusses the legal and political ramifications of Memorial's response to the crisis and especially the decisions to euthanize patients.A more negative review came from Julia M. Klein of And if you think you or your loved ones are safe from harm in a hospital, that it is an island of hope, read this book.You'd think that if your hospital were below water level, you might keep your generators somewhere other than the basement.
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I am a healthcare professional and I was not able to put this down - the story is very well written and investigated by Sheri Fink, and describes multiple sides of the story as well as multiple ethical and moral issues. Some of the decisions made regarding how the patients were to be handled came into question when reports of patients being euthanized near the end surfaced later.
I don't usually have difficulty finishing a book, but I had difficulty with this one.
That article convinced me that perhaps something very unsavory had happened at the hospital during the disaster.This book is a devastating account of what happened at a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Five Days at Memorial is social reporting of the first rank. These are not the even-tempered literary cadences of her Pulitzer Prize-winning article about the crisis at Memorial that appeared in The New York Times Magazine in … Years of life saved? I did not become outraged, however, until the DA's office mishandled the grand jury, the medical examiner took it upon himself to disagree with ALL of the several experts he hired to look into the case (who all found at least 9 patient deaths to be homicides) because he thought it was best for the city, and the medical community at large circled the wagons to protect their own at the expense of the truth. What threw me off was in the middle of the book I read about the author and her dealings with Dr. Pou outside of the book.
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