Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

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

5 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

lydiak's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Police brutality

tomato_bisque's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

The first third is a fast paced account of what occured over the day of the hurricane and the tragedies that followed in the days after. The later part of the book slows down and discusses the aftermath (investigations, rebuilding, political ramifications.) This might have been more compelling pre-covid but the fact that the US medical system and government cannot handle any sort of large scale disaster should not be surprising anymore. 

The book brings up ethical conundrums about how we should ration care in times of crisis. There are not easy answers.

Being unfamilar with the case, I was honestly kinda surprised how general public and the medical field rallied around Pou. Thank god the book expressed the dissenting points of views from other doctors because I thought I was going insane.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Abandonment, Animal death, Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Police brutality, Chronic illness, and Grief