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Five days at memorial examines the tragedy of hurricane katrina as it unfolded, focusing on events at memorial medical center, where medical staff cared for patients without running water or electricity for four days as they awaited evacuation. Life and death in a stormravaged hospital is a nonfiction book written by journalist dr. The book details the aftermath of hurricane katrina at memorial medical center in new orleans in august 2005, and is an expansion of a pulitzer prizewinning article written by fink and published in the new york times magazine in 2009. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading five days at memorial. Life and death in a stormravaged hospital crown, 20 about choices made in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. The book provides extensive background on many of the patients, their family members, hospital staffers, public officials, and others important to the story. Available on kindle ebook and can be read on any device with the free kindle. September 8, 20 sheri finks five days at memorial, describes the horrific conditions at a new orleans hospital shortly after hurricane katrina. Sheri fink explores the excruciating struggle of medical professionals deciding to give fatal injections to those at the brink of death. Five days at memorial, the finale of 6 years of revealing, unspools the particular mystery regarding what happened in those days, using the reader straight into a medical center fighting because of its life and into a conversation concerning the most horrifying form of medical care rationing. Paperback counting sea life with the little seahorse interactive counting with surprise ending by sheri. Five days at memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, 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. He would push 10 mg of morphine and 5 mg of the fastacting sedative drug versed and go up from there as needed.
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