NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER тАв┬аThe award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ тАв A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane KatrinaтАФand the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justiceтАФfrom a Pulitzer PrizeтАУwinning physician and reporter
тАЬAn amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.тАЭтАФDallas Morning News
After 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 those patients with life-ending drugs.
Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death?
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Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disastersтАФand how we can do better.
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ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review тАв┬аONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star
WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award