Five Days at Memorial Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Fink

eBook - 2013

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 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 NewsA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyAfter 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 th...ose patients with life-ending drugs.Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink,... more