Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Audiobook (Free)

Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient fatalities at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.

In the tradition of the greatest investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and pulls the reader in to the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and keep maintaining life amid chaos.

After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the about Five Days at Memorial: Existence and Death within a Storm-Ravaged Medical center power failed, and heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for save. Months later, several of those caregivers faced legal allegations that they intentionally injected numerous sufferers with drugs to hasten their fatalities.

Five Times at Memorial, the culmination of six many years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a medical center fighting because of its lifestyle and into a conversation about probably the most terrifying type of health care rationing.

In a voice simultaneously involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are for the effect of large-scale disasters-and how exactly we can do better. An extraordinary publication, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your knowledge of human character in crisis.

One of THE BRAND NEW York Occasions’ Best 10 Books of the entire year