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

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink (@sherifink) invites the reader to examine what is expected of the medical community during times of disaster; specifically, what is demanded by our emergency medicine training in triage, disaster management, and end-of-life care, and what ethics form the foundation of our practice when preexisting systems around us fail. Dr. Fink's book offers an opportunity for us as health care practitioners to seriously consider what actions we would take if faced with a situation of conflict in settings of unfathomable duress and insufficient resources resulting from the near immediate and immense disparity between our usual practice and the severe, disaster-induced lack of basic resources confronting us.

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