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Author Fink, Sheri, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, [2013]
©2013

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 Moore Stacks  RA975.D57 F56 2013    Available  ---
Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 558 pages : map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-542) and index.
Contents Deadly choices -- Reckoning.
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.
Subject Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)
Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)
Disaster hospitals -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
Disaster hospitals.
Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Disaster medicine -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
Disaster medicine.
Health facilities -- Louisiana -- Administration -- Case studies.
Health facilities.
Louisiana.
Administration.
Forensic pathology -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
Forensic pathology.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina (2005)
Genre/Form Case studies.
Added Title 5 days at Memorial
ISBN 9780307718969 (hardback) $27.00
0307718964 (hardback)
9780307718983 (e-book)
0307718980 (e-book)