Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital (Signed!) [B0925]

2013 signed HCDJ 1st edition in nice clean condition. The multiple 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I couldn't stop talking about this book. As an ER nurse, the situation at Memorial was absolutely harrowing to imagine, and I thought the author's background in medicine greatly lent itself to a balanced assessment of the events. I think this brings up such interesting and critical questions on disaster triage, delivery of care in times of limited resources, and the culpability of healthcare workers in unimaginable situations. Highly highly recommend."; "Difficult to follow at times but powerful in description. WOW! Felt like I was there. These workers were heroes."; "Haunting and bleak and occasionally gets in the weeds on legality and policy instead of exploring questions of ableism, ageism, racism, etc. But overall compelling, well-written, and, frankly, gave me nightmares."