Five Days at Memorial
Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital
New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xviii, 558 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina destroyed its generators to reveal how caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions without essential resources.
Subjects:
Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)
Disaster hospitals -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
Disaster medicine -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
Health facilities -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Administration -- Case studies.
Medical ethics -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Memorial Medical Center (New Orleans, La.)
Disaster hospitals -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
Disaster medicine -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
Health facilities -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Administration -- Case studies.
Medical ethics -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
ISBN:
0307718964
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Disaster Fin | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY Disaster Fin | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-542) and index.