Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital

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Label

Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital

Title remainder

life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital

Statement of responsibility

Sheri Fink

Creator

• Fink, Sheri

Subject

• Disaster medicine -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Case studies
• Forensic pathology -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Case studies
• Health facilities -- Louisiana -- Administration -- Case studies
• Disaster hospitals -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Case studies
• Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)
• New Orleans (La.)
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

Fink provides an 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

362.1109763/35

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

RA975.D57

LC item number

F56 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

WX 28 AL6

NLM item number

N5M533F 2013