Reviews tagging 'Murder'

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

10 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

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

tiredenglishteacher's review

dark emotional tense

3.75

Important book. Provides context for the disaster, and many different perspectives on what happened. Informative about an atrocity. Unbelievable that many of the main players are still practicing. Major con: this book is regularly fatphobic for no real reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

Moderate: Fatphobia

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

caroline_hutchison's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical content, and Medical trauma

heatherilene's review

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

streberkatze's review against another edition

The first part of the book was incredibly gripping. Fink did an incredible job showing the reader the complexity of the situation and the sheer desperation and exhaustion that underlay everything that happened at Memorial Hospital during those five days. And she does so without ever being sensationalist. But while I appreciated this level of detail in the first part, it was too much for me in the second part. I gave it another try by listening to the audiobook version, but it was just too slow for me (especially so much has been written about the legal battle that ensued in shorter form). I'd still recommend this book. The second part just wasn't for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Terminal illness, Cancer, Excrement, and Murder

gloriazthompson's review

challenging reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Animal death

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