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Name: Five Days at Memorial
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Sherri Fink

Sherri Fink delivers a detailed investigation into the deaths that occurred at Memorial Medical Center during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The book examines how flooding, power failures, and soaring temperatures forced hospital staff to make extremely difficult decisions about patient care and resource allocation. It follows the legal and ethical scrutiny that later questioned whether certain deaths were hastened by deliberate medication. Through forensic pathology, disaster medicine, and hospital administration perspectives, Fink portrays the harrowing environment of a hospital struggling to survive while revealing the broader issues of medical ethics and crisis management during a disaster.

First publish date: 2013

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Sherri Fink

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