Sheri Lee Fink
Autore di Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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Fonte dell'immagine: Lars Klove / ProPublica
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- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- University of Michigan
Stanford University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Pulitzer Prize (2010)
Pulitzer Prize finalist (2010)
National Magazine Award for Reporting (2010) - Agente
- Joy Harris
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Five Days at Memorial Discussion Thread in Club Read 2014 (Luglio 2021)
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The title, and even the subject headings only speak to it's being about a Hospital that was in that part of Louisiana that was struck by Hurricane Katrina--(so one thinks "high winds, water surges, the huge potential of drowning, or maybe electrocution, or having something heavy slammed into you, or vise-versa, and then high sewage-like standing water). And, of course, it IS a lot of that, no doubt about it; until you get about half way through, to the aftermath--which I hadn't the first time, and then you realize it hasn't become just a story about a hurricane and the levels of unpreparedness resulting from either lack of funds (as in the cost to fortify a helipad, or investing in enough generators), or from an inability to foresee the minutia of potential issues that could arise, or even, avoidably, from lack of communication or cohesiveness in meeting those issues, combined with the skills (or lack there of) and ingenuity (likewise) of medical staff to improvise; it's also about patients, families, local residents, pets, the need to evacuate competing with other citizens and institutions for external assistance--the confusion of what external assistance exists, the good (heroes) the bad (looters, criminals) and the ugly (snipers), survival, hubris, panic, politics (that one's worth saying more than once; politics, politics), loyalties, psychology, martial law, triage, different mind sets of medical professionals, the Tenet Healthcare organization (for whom I once worked), and whether that entire 'from soup to nuts' mix spells, e-u-t-h-a-n-a-s-i-a, or m-u-r-d-e-r.
It's an interesting, thought provoking read.… (altro)