Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink

9 reviews

mischiefmimi's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Racism, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, Grief, Chronic illness, Dementia, Terminal illness, Animal death, Addiction, Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Injury/Injury detail

tjdewald's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

The story is good but the story is not one of the author’s. She is simply retelling what happened. It’s a fascinating story of ethics and disaster but it is so slow. I felt the ending in the epilogue could have been better. It didn’t feel “done”. I’m glad I read the book, learned about medical procedures in relation to disasters, and was able to ponder the ethical battle of medical assisted euthanasia. I would recommend this book to people who are genuinely interested in ethics, disaster research/response, and tough medical dilemmas. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Ableism, Blood, Death, Classism, Animal cruelty, Murder, Violence, Terminal illness, Dementia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Excrement, Fatphobia, Medical content, Cancer, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Body horror, Drug use, Police brutality, Abandonment, and Body shaming

quiet_reader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death of parent, Blood, Violence, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Medical content, Vomit, Fatphobia, Grief, Abandonment, Animal death, Excrement, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Police brutality

crabbytaco's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Ableism, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Cancer

heatherilene's review

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Cancer, Ableism, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Racism, and Terminal illness

sorayah11's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

Not a perfect book and could be dry, but gave me lots of information on an event I hadn't heard about before. I'm hoping to start nursing school in March and this book made me think a lot about someone's life, the field of medicine, and the ways the two can mix. I've mostly seen medicine favorably and I appreciated this bringing up arguments on the other side of that.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Racism, Death, Animal death, and Medical content

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, Gun violence, Chronic illness, and War

streberkatze's review against another edition

The first part of the book was incredibly gripping. Fink did an incredible job showing the reader the complexity of the situation and the sheer desperation and exhaustion that underlay everything that happened at Memorial Hospital during those five days. And she does so without ever being sensationalist. But while I appreciated this level of detail in the first part, it was too much for me in the second part. I gave it another try by listening to the audiobook version, but it was just too slow for me (especially so much has been written about the legal battle that ensued in shorter form). I'd still recommend this book. The second part just wasn't for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Terminal illness, Cancer, Excrement, and Murder

mscalls's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Terminal illness, Torture, and War

sara_lena's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness