Five Days at Memorial Five Days at Memorial

Five Days at Memorial

Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

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Publisher Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter

“An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News


After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs.

Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death?
 
Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better.
 
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star

WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2013
September 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
576
Pages
PUBLISHER
Crown
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
29.8
MB

Customer Reviews

brandigh ,

Like it, not love it

It took awhile for me to get hooked on the book but when I did it was jaw dropping. To hear about the horrors that occurred. Definitely worth the read

rlcjrs ,

BEST BOOK

Absolutely fascinating! Excellent author! A must read, you won’t be disappointed……

Little Daisey Do ,

Five Days at Memorial

Very exciting moment by moment depiction of a disturbing event- hard to put down-thought provoking

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