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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
15 reviews
emiliamaria76's review
4.0
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
mischiefmimi's review against another edition
3.75
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
3.75
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
abby_can_read's review against another edition
3.0
What happened was harrowing and heartbreaking. This book was well written. I did struggle to keep track of everyone -- patients, nurses, doctors, their families before police, lawyers and politicians who. I think this shows Fink did a lot of research. I think book afforded a good look at medical ethics and disaster preparedness.
Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, and Medical content
Moderate: Terminal illness, Animal death, and Ableism
quiet_reader's review against another edition
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
sarahweyand's review
3.5
I really enjoyed the first half of this book and it was exactly what I expected going in. A great piece of narrative nonfiction that I would recommend to anyone wanting to learn more about this disaster. And then it started to drag. I figured Fink would get into some details of what happened after Katrina, but not to the extent that she did. While I do think that she does a good job of talking about the medical malpractice issues and discussing both viewpoints, it became repetitive for me and I found myself zoning out more frequently.
If you want a very full picture of what happened, this may just be the book for you, but at 550 pages, I'd recommend stopping after the fifth day at Memorial if you aren't as interested in the aftermath.
Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Animal death, Ableism, and Terminal illness
heatherilene's review
4.0
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
nursetess's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Death, Violence, and Terminal illness
shereadytoread's review
4.5
My biggest issue with the book is how it is organized. The first half of the book contains about 7 chapters and then the second half of the book has only 2 chapters (totaling approx 250 pages together). While they were cohesive, they should have been better divided into small sections. (For reference chapters in the first section were approximately 1-1.5 hours on the audiobook and the chapters in the second section were almost 4 hours and 5 hours each.
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death
Moderate: Terminal illness
sorayah11's review against another edition
3.0
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