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Genre/Form: | Audiobooks Case studies |
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Material Type: | Audio book, etc., Internet resource |
Document Type: | Sound Recording, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sheri Fink; Kirsten Potter |
ISBN: | 9780804128094 080412809X 9780804128117 0804128111 |
OCLC Number: | 837141886 |
Notes: | Title from container. |
Performer(s): | Read by Kirsten Potter. |
Description: | 14 audio discs (approximately 1050 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
Contents: | Deadly choices -- Reckoning. |
Other Titles: | 5 days at Memorial Life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital |
Responsibility: | Sheri Fink. |
Abstract:
Pulitzer Prize-winner Sheri Fink's investigation into the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, a gripping portrayal of unfolding calamity, vital choices and the suspenseful quest for truth and justice. Physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of the patients, doctors, rescue workers, nurses, and family members who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amidst chaos.
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- Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)
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- Health facilities -- Louisiana -- Administration -- Case studies.
- Forensic pathology -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
- New Orleans (La.)
- Disaster hospitals.
- Disaster medicine.
- Forensic pathology.
- Health facilities -- Administration.
- Louisiana.
- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
- Hospitals -- history -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
- Disasters -- history -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
- Cyclonic Storms -- history -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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