from mkboylan

What would you do if you were caught in a flood in a hospital and knew your last nine helpless patients would not be evacuated but would in all likelihood drown?  This Pulitzer Prize winner tells the story from multiple perspectives, some perspectives that I would never have even thought of.  And...

from beckyhaase

FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL by Sheri Fink FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL is two books in one. The first relates, through the eyes of those present, the happenings at Memorial Hospital during and after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Louisiana. The nurses, doctors, visitors and patients tell their stories ...

from michigantrumpet

It is an intriguing exercise to imagine how one would react in times of moral strife and pressure. Would we be brave enough to shelter a young Anne Frank and her family? Be a strong Judge handing down a highly contentious and repugnant opinion? Provide a funeral for a mass murderer? Are ethical p...

from lauralkeet

Emergencies are crucibles that contain and reveal the daily, slower-burning problems of medicine and beyond-our vulnerabilities; our trouble grappling with uncertainty, how we die, how we prioritize and divide what is most precious and vital and limited; even our biases and blindnesses. After Hur...

from techeditor

FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL is nonfiction the way I wish all nonfiction books were: detailed without letting the details get in the way of an honest-to-gosh edge-of-your-seat story. This is an outstanding book, and any description of it won't do it justice. You may think you know this story of New Orle...