01901cam a2200325 4500 552997474 TxAuBib 20130930120000.0 130523|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013019693 9780307718969 hbk. 0307718964 hbk. (OCoLC)846520402 DLC rda eng DLC IG# ILC TxAuBib Fink, Sheri. Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital / Sheri Fink. 5 days at Memorial. First edition. xviii, 558 pages : map ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Deadly choices -- Reckoning. 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. 20130930. Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.) Disaster hospitals Louisiana New Orleans Case studies. Disaster medicine Louisiana New Orleans Case studies. Health facilities Louisiana Administration Case studies. Forensic pathology Louisiana New Orleans Case studies. Hurricane Katrina, 2005.