It was hard to put down this impressive work of journalism that focuses on events at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. As hurricane season approaches it begs the question: are we better prepared to deal with natural disasters in the U.S.? The epilogue to t...
"Someday," the letter writer warned, "the truth will be told".--anonymous writer, in response to an essay for Modern Healthcare written by Touro Infirmary CEO, Les Hirsch. The writer called out Hirsch, who was explaining away actions taken by hospital staff during Hurricane Katrina. The anonymous...
The first five days of Hurricane Katrina for the doctors, patients, and non-patients at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans. Wow! This is a well-written, well-documented look at what happened at the hospital and the aftermath of those decisions and actions. It reads like a novel. I was pulled in from t...
This gets such a high review on Goodreads and Amazon that I have been wanting to read it for awhile. Based on Hurricane Katrina's effects on "Memorial", I was looking forward to a story that I didn't realize was more of an essay, based on author interviews. Purely my mistake, so I continued. But it'...
Most of the time, doctors get it right. But on certain occasions, they make bad decisions, and this is a book about a terrible crisis in a hospital that brought on some very bad decision making. Five Days at Memorial tells a heart-wrenching story, made even more poignant because it is all true. I fi...
It's hard reading about things that really happened. I tend to stay strictly in the land of make-believe. I have the kind of job that has me seeing bad things every day, so I usually use my reading to escape that reality. Well, for a reading challenge over on Goodreads, I tend to have to move ou...
Caveats:This is one of those times where I really wish that half stars existed, in which case this would definitely receive four and a half; my least favorite part of the book was the Epilogue which (obviously) I read last. So, for what it's worth, this is a five star book sans epilogue. In other ne...
This was one very disturbing book to read, full of stories and situations that will make you think and possibly rethink your preparations for what to do when a disaster hits. This tells the story of the patients and staff at Memorial hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and the conseque...
Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath was a horrible disaster, and the pictures haunted our television screens for days. So much went on as it actually became for many, survival of the fittest and a die hard effort to protect, feed, shelter and get water for their families. There were such limited res...
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