Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Fink, Sheri

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307718976)

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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Fink, Sheri

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

$21.00
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Fink, Sheri

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ - A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina--and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice--from a Pulitzer Prize-winning physician and reporter

"An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit."--Dallas Morning News

After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs.

Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death?

Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters--and how we can do better.

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star

WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award

Author: Sheri Fink
ISBN-10: 0307718972
ISBN-13: 9780307718976
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2016
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.8
Point Value: 30
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 164626 / Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 03/04/2016 pg. 63
By Sheri Fink
By Sheri Fink
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Sheri Fink is the New York Times bestselling author of Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital and War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival. 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 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 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and a National Magazine Award for reporting. A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, Fink received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

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