Research Catalog

Title

Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital / Sheri Fink.

Author

Fink, Sheri

Publication

New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]

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Details

Description

xviii, 558 pages : map; 25 cm

Summary

Fink 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. 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. Fink 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.

Subject

• Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)
• 2005
• Cyclonic Storms > history
• Disasters > history
• Hospitals > history
• 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
• Louisiana
• New Orleans

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [493]-542) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Deadly choices -- Reckoning.

ISBN

• 9780307718969
• 0307718964
• 9780307718983 (e-isbn) (canceled/invalid)
• 0307718980 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013019693

OCLC

• 846520402
• SCSB-12537550

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library