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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
23 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
emeryjohnson's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, and Medical content
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
bethboo's review
2.75
I listened to the audio book.
I love investigative journalism, especially when the story uncovers some sort of injustice. I saw the ad for the Apple TV show and since I don't have that I thought I'd read the book. I wasn't a fan of how the story was told, how long it took, and the weird extra bits at the end. It made it confusing and looping to and fro without a straight timeline. And while the situation was dire and weird shit happened with the patients I don't enjoy the author insinuating that these doctors were at fault. I wish the author would have taken a more neutral tone. Like they rushed and told an overview of the story and looped back on certain "characters" and then skipped ahead and looped back and then overview again and then a random detail from day two and then aftermath and trials and then talked for over an hour about neonatal policy at the end? Let me tell ya, this book was about 5 hours too long, I hit that middle point and just simply wanted to know what the hell happened. Not in a good way. I did not get a straight answer out of this author the whole book.
It brought up some interesting thoughts about end of life care, and definitely inspires you to prepare for the unknown.
Graphic: Vomit, Excrement, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Death
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
crabbytaco's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content, Ableism, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Cancer
caroline_hutchison's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Murder, Medical content, and Medical trauma
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