He lost his footing in an inky stairwell and nearly pitched down the. Forty-five people, all of them patients, lost their lives when power systems failed as a result of flooding and a lack of disaster strategies. In the days after the Category 5 storm made landfall on August 29, 2005, Memorial Medical Center lost power as backup generators failed and temperatures soared to over 100 degrees. Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (9781782393757) by Sheri Fink and a. MORE: When will BBC’s hit crime show Strike return for season 5?Īs patients and victims began to swarm the hospital after being evacuated looking for shelter, the health facility and its staff was pushed to the limits. Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Finks landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-and her suspenseful. MORE: Trying stars Rafe Spall and Esther Smith open up about season three's unique challenges, losing Imelda Staunton and the show's future Five Days at Memorial Sheri Fink The award-winning book that. Sheri Fink's book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, details the harrowing and difficult choices medical staff were forced to make when their hospital was overwhelmed with patients in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Disaster demonstrates that the incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina is a. 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.

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