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Expanding on her original research, Fink conducted over 500 interviews with people who were at the hospital during the disaster, families of the dead patients, hospital executives, law enforcement officials and ethicists. She interviewed Dr. Anna Pou, one of the principal characters of the story, about her experiences at Memorial, but Pou declined to discuss details related to patient deaths based on her lawyer's advice. Fink said that while "some of the medical and nursing professionals were observing a code of silence", she was impressed by the openness of several staff members, including two doctors who talked freely of their decision to euthanize their patients. Fink also reviewed photographs, videos, emails and diary entries produced at the time, and consulted weather reports and the hospital's floor plans.
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hospital lost power and its back-up generators had failed, leaving it without lights, air conditioning, sewer systems and essential medical equipment. Thousands of staff, patients and evacuees were trapped by floodwaters inside the building awaiting evacuation by boat or helicopter. Fink describes the unconventional method of
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by medical and nursing staff shortly before the entire hospital was evacuated on the fifth day of the crisis. Fink examines the legal and political consequences of the decision to euthanize patients and the ethical issues surrounding euthanasia and health care in disaster scenarios. The book was well
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The book is divided into two parts. The first part, titled "Deadly Choices", focuses on the events that occurred at Memorial Medical Center over the "five days" referred to in the book's title: August 28 – September 1, 2005. During these five days, Memorial's emergency plans proved inadequate as the
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The second part, titled "Reckoning", discusses the legal and political ramifications of Memorial's response to the crisis and especially the decisions to euthanize patients. In total, 45 patients died before the hospital was evacuated and 23 were identified as having concentrations of morphine and
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While she was writing "The Deadly Choices at Memorial", Fink decided to expand the article into a book. Since she "kept finding out new facts and trying to fit them into the story because they seemed essential", she was encouraged by her editor to save the extra material to publish in a book.
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chose not to indict Pou in 2007. Fink discusses the ethical issues surrounding the events at Memorial, as well as those involved in disaster settings and euthanasia in general. A brief epilogue critiques health care protocols in disasters and uses the example of
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of numerous patients by the medical and nursing staff. Fink was drawn to the subject matter because of her experience as a doctor working in areas of conflict and as a journalist reporting on hospitals in war zones. The article, which was a joint assignment for
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magazine's Laura Miller found the first half of the book lacking in "shape or coherence, the meaning of this or that detail unclear and the timeline occasionally muddled", but was more impressed with the discussion of the disaster aftermath in the second half.
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following allegations that they had administered lethal doses of morphine to some patients. The public's sympathy lay largely with the three accused Memorial staff; the charges against Landry and Budo were eventually dropped, and a
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Hirsh Sawhney admired the detail and variety of perspectives offered in the book and described the book as "soar to artistic and intellectual heights undreamed of in other realms of media". Peter Beaumont, writing for
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other drugs in their tissues. Fink focuses largely on the investigation into the actions of Dr. Anna Pou and two intensive care nurses, Cheri Landry and Lori Budo, all three of whom were charged with
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in 2012 to illustrate the lack of change undertaken by hospitals in response to the disaster caused by Katrina and a failure of the US government to enforce standards for "emergency preparedness".
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commended Fink's ability to produce a "compelling and revealing account" of events despite limited access to evidence such as investigative reports and Pou's testimony, while the
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commended the "shimmering intelligence" of Fink's discussion of the events and their ethical issues, and summarized the book as "social reporting of the first rank". Another
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in 2009. It describes the events that took place at Memorial Medical Center over five days as thousands of people were trapped in the hospital without power. The
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critic Susan Jane Gilman faulted the book for "provok more debate than it answers" but praised Fink's "fair and balanced", "nuanced" writing.
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system put into effect deprioritized critically ill patients for evacuation, and it was later alleged that a number of these patients were
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will serve as showrunners, writers and executive producers. Ridley will direct the limited series and produced by
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adopted by the medical staff, whereby ambulatory patients were prioritized for evacuation and those with "
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as "an important book that will make your blood boil no matter which side of the issue you support".
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originated as a 13,000-word magazine article titled "The Deadly Choices at Memorial", published by
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had given a series order to a television limited series adaptation of the book.
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Memorial Medical Center in January 2006, still closed after Hurricane Katrina
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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before being scrapped. It has been adapted as a miniseries by
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The book was set to be the basis of the third season of the
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received by most critics and won three awards, including a
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This article is about the book. For the miniseries, see
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Index

Five Days at Memorial (miniseries)

Sheri Fink
Memorial Medical Center and Hurricane Katrina
Crown Publishing Group
ISBN
978-0-307-71898-3
non-fiction
Sheri Fink
Hurricane Katrina
Memorial Medical Center
New Orleans
Pulitzer Prize
The New York Times Magazine
triage
euthanized
National Book Critics Circle Award
FX
true crime
American Crime Story
John Ridley
Carlton Cuse
Apple TV+
The New York Times Magazine
Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans
Ochsner Baptist Medical Center
euthanasia
ProPublica
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

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