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Bezig met laden... Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospitaldoor Sheri Fink
  
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  ) devilhoo | Jan 3, 2024 |  ) cfulton20 | Nov 13, 2023 | The second half of the book covers this process and was more disturbing than the first half. The way the lawyers and politicians vehemently went after the health care professionals who did the best they could in a terrible situation absolutely sickened me. In many cases it really seemed they were doing it merely to further their own careers. Since I strongly recommend reading the book,I wont reveal how things eventually turned out. ( ) kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 | 1. Raise the ambient temperature 15 degrees Fahrenheit 2. Cut off all electricity and running water. 3. Cut off communication with the outside world except for talk radio 4. Have third hand intermittent contact with various “rescuers” who seem confused and unreliable 5. Give yourself an IV line and make morphine and Versed readily available. 6. Place a short-statured narcissistic female ENT cancer surgeon, who is used to making life and death decisions and to justifying her mistakes, in charge. How long until someone decides to give you morphine and Versed until you die? Four days. (  ) markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 | ) eshaundo | Jan 7, 2023 |
 What developed over the five days, in a hospital ironically well supplied with bottled water and food, and resupplied by air with drugs, was a system of triage that varied depending on which company had responsibility for the patients. Against this background, it would later be alleged, key Tenet personnel discussed, and then carried out, euthanasia on the terminally ill patients even as relief was imminent. Fink is in no doubt that some kind of crime took place even if she is fair and deeply sympathetic to the plight of the exhausted medical staff involved. "Moral clarity," she writes, describing the moment the patients were injected with a powerful cocktail of drugs, "was easier to maintain in concept than in execution." If the beginning of the book is sometimes awkwardly structured, Fink finds her stride a few chapters in and make this a tight, provocative and gripping read.  Five Days at Memorial is thorough reporting about what happened at New Orleans’ Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Sheri Fink, who is both a journalist and a Ph.D. neuroscientist, won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for the 2009 New York Times/Pro Publica article “Deadly Choices at Memorial,” which became the basis for this book. ... Fink’s journalism chops show, particularly in her attention to detail and her unwillingness to paint anyone as a villain. Some readers may feel that she’s not tough enough on Dr. Pou, but what Fink has really accomplished here is putting the reader on the spot, with one crisis after another and no real hope of rescue. In her book “Five Days at Memorial,” Dr. Sheri Fink explores the excruciating struggle of medical professionals deciding to give fatal injections to those at the brink of death. Dr. Fink, a physician turned journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for her investigation of these events in a 2009 joint assignment for ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine. This book is much more than an extension of that report. Although she had the material for a gripping disaster story, Dr. Fink has slowed the narrative pulse to investigate situational ethics: what happens when caregivers steeped in medicine’s supreme value, preserving life, face traumatic choices as the standards of civilization collapse. PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
Sociology.
True Crime.
Nonfiction.
HTML: The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ â?˘ Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Finkâ??s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrinaâ??and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)362.1109763Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems of & services to groups of people People with physical illnesses HospitalsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (4.13)
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