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Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital / Sheri Fink.

Fink, Sheri.
2013
362.110976335 F499f 2013
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Title
Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital / Sheri Fink.
Author
Fink, Sheri.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780307718969 (hardcover)
0307718964 (hardcover)
9780307718983 (ebook)
0307718980 (ebk.)
Published
New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
Language
English
Description
xviii, 558 pages : map ; 25 cm
Call Number
362.110976335 F499f 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)846520402
(OCoLC)846520402
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Deadly choices
Reckoning.
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