Barnes & NobleFive Days at Memorial- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, The 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 Katrinaand the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justicefrom a Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 disastersand how we can do better.