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

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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780307718969
ISBN: 0307718964
ISBN: 9780307718983 (e-isbn)
ISBN: 0307718980 (ebk.)
Physical Description: print
xviii, 558 pages : map ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [493]-542) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Deadly choices -- Reckoning.

Find similar items by subject

Subject:

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

Currently available copies

52 out of 55 copies are currently available at PINES. (Show)
3 out of 3 copies are currently available at Flint River Regional Library System. (Show)
1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Peachtree City Library.