Five Days At Memorial

 Today I finished a very long book called Five Days At Memorial by Sheri Fink. This book details a true story about what happened inside a hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. I like books that have medical information and this book has a boatload of medical information. For five days the doctors, nurses, cooks, pharmacists, orderlies, administrators, patients and visitors lived and died in that hospital. Decisions had to be made. Electricity was intermittent. Communication with the outside world was intermittent. Rumors swirled and panic flashed around corners. Rescue was slow to come because for some reason this particular hospital was put last on the list to rescue. Some helicopters would only take patients who were ambulatory. Some patients were lain down on the floor with barely any clothes on lying in their own waste, too dehydrated from the intense heat while nurses fanned them with cardboard. I can't imagine it, the horror, the indignities, the danger and the filth. On top of all that, after the hurricane is over and life is getting back to normal, the new prosecutor in town tries to win political points by suing Dr. Anna Pou and two nurses. Jeez Louise! I heard Apple TV is planning a mini-series about this story and I can see why because the drama is gripping!