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Sheri Fink
Dr. Sheri Fink is the author of the New York Times bestseller Five Days At Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Fink's... show more

Dr. Sheri Fink is the author of the New York Times bestseller Five Days At Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Fink's reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Award, among other journalism prizes. Most recently, her coverage of Hurricanes Sandy and Isaac received the Mike Berger Award from Columbia University and the Beat Reporting Award from the Association of Healthcare Journalists. Fink, a former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, received her MD and PhD from Stanford University. Her first book, War Hospital, is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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learn by going
learn by going rated it 7 years ago
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...
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Lagniappe Literature rated it 8 years ago
"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...
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Sheila's Reads rated it 9 years ago
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...
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cczarneckikernus rated it 10 years ago
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'...
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Flicker Reads rated it 10 years ago
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...
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