Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Cover of Five Days at Memorial AuthorSheri Fink CountryUnited States LanguageEnglish SubjectMemorial Medical Center and Hurricane Katrina GenreNon-fiction PublisherCrown Publishing Group Publication date September 10, 2013 Media typePrint, e-book Pages576 ISBN978-0-307-71898-3 Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American journalist Sheri Fink. We’ve got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day. by Crown Her flip little behavior enraged me, as I am sure it did others who still suffer the effects of that cruel storm. Five Days at Memorial Chapters 5-7 Summary & Analysis Chapter 5 Summary Early on the fourth day, August 31, the Coast Guard offers to fly out more patients, especially “the seven LifeCare patients on ventilators” (110), but Dr. Deichmann asks them to wait till daybreak. It's fine, of course, to be biased in writing, but not when one is attempting to pass their book off as a neutral, fair account. And that is my favorite thing about this book.
The icing on the cake is that the doctor, once no-billed, goes around the country grossly distorting the facts and bemoaning the fact that she was almost indicted for making difficult triage decisions, never bothering to mention the sticky issue of homicide, and getting legislation passed virtually immunizing healthcare providers for any decisions they make in disaster situations. I have family on the Gulf Coast who were affected by the storm and the whole event is just a little too personal. I listened to the audio book while commuting and couldn't wait to get back in my car. Looking for a book that will spark debate and discussion? What would you do if you were caught in a flood in a hospital and knew your last nine helpless patients would not be evacuated but would in all likelihood drown? You'd think lessons painfully learned almost 80 years before in your city would cause you to have an emergency plan in place in case of flooding. Some of the decisions made regarding how the patients were to be handled came into question when reports of patients being euthanized near the end surfaced later.
She is a correspondent at the… Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random HouseVisit other sites in the Penguin Random House NetworkBy clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Public opinion at the time was squarely behind the hospital staff, largely because we thought that the opportunistic former sheriff was blaming the very people, who saved so many lives, of not being even more heroic. NOT the events depicted therein. Natural disaster, medicine, corporate hierarchies, crime, law, media -- they feed aLike David Simon's The Wire and Dave Cullen's Columbine, this book is about all of the moral dilemmas that surround massive tragedy, and about the ways that interconnected systems succeed and fail and undermine each other when infrastructure breaks down. They were not required to euthanize patients, at least one of whom was alert and required sedation first, at the very time that the evacuation was underway in earnest. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Sheri Fink, 2013 Crown Publishing 576 pp. Is it the number of lives saved? There were such limited resources available for these poor people and the sight of their faces is one I have not forgotten. Since she "kept finding out new facts and trying to fit them into the story because they seemed essential", she was encouraged by her editor to save the extra material to publish in a book.The book is divided into two parts. Pop to those four patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Strain was an unfortunate result of a disastrous situation. I think anyone accused should be able to tell their side: I'm going to start off my review with links to rebuttals, because I think they are important to include. Significant amount of research was pour into this book. Best “quality” years of life saved? Sheri Fink’s reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Award, among other journalism prizes. I was also one of the large population of locals who were offended and dismayed when then-Attorney General Charles Foti arrested a doctor and two nurses who had been at the flooded Memorial hospital during the disaster. This book is a mess, a train wreck kind of mess.
In books like this, with topics like this there are loads of details that the author has to pare down and put in an order that the reader can follow.