Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

24 reviews

amyalicejakob's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Really enjoyed this. I loved the way that the author managed to convey the intricacies of what was happening in the hospital as well as what was happening culturally and what the world was saying and thinking about everything. It read as a thriller, and I couldn't put it down! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Ableism, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

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

alyssawatsonlee's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.0

The first half of the book is a very interesting account of what it was like inside the hospital during and after Katrina. The second half is an overly detailed, arduous description of the investigation that took place afterwards. While the ethics are interesting, this book could have benefited from a better editor. No one cares about every single detail of the investigation down to the car the investigator drives. I would have found an exploration of the government/administration failures, and a discussion of how this horrific event impacted (or should have impacted) emergency management much more useful, and was entirely left to the afterword. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Excrement, and Medical content

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