Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

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

4 reviews

emiliamaria76's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Grief, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Dementia, Death, Medical trauma, Animal death, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Child death, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Chronic illness

emeryjohnson's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

This is a must read for anyone in healthcare! Trigger warning: the epilogue discusses rationing ventilators in a pandemic which was a struggle for me to read (currently ICU nurse who worked covid step down as a new grad)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, and Medical content

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