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September’s Book: Five Days At Memorial by Sheri Fink
Genre: Non-Fiction
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital is a 2013 non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink that investigates the mysterious deaths of patients at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The book details the harrowing conditions, the ethical dilemmas faced by exhausted staff, and the subsequent criminal allegations against healthcare professionals for allegedly hastening patient deaths. Fink's extensive reporting, based on hundreds of interviews and documents, explores the complex questions of patient prioritization, end-of-life care, and human nature in a crisis.
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