Five Days At Memorial is a reconstruction of the time following Hurricane Katrina that survivors spent at the hospital, largely without electricity and with decreasing supplies of food and water. Horrific mismanagement led to a situation so desperate and chaotic that later some doctors and nurses we...
Review first posted on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/09/five-days-at-memorial.htmlFive Days at Memorial brings to life the events at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in the five days following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the philosophical, moral, ethical and legal batt...
While post-Katrina news stories were focused on looting in the streets of New Orleans and the horrendous conditions inside the Superdome, the city’s hospitals were also at the center of chaos. At Memorial Medical Center, floodwaters rose to the point of cutting power, eliminating both air conditioni...
How do you review a book that you believe is important--as in, everyone who even hopes to call themselves a concerned citizen, anyone running for public office, and any one who ever expects to be hospitalized at some point in their life should read--but by the last page you kinda went, 'Meh'? Afte...
It took me almost a month to get through this book. It's absolutely heart breaking and I needed to stop a lot because I was getting upset and angry.Five Days at Memorial is the story of a hospital during and after Hurricane Katrina. The only way to describe those five days is 'colossal failure'. I w...
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