Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink5/15/2023 ![]() What we have here is masterly reporting and the glow of fine writing. Her choice of sentence structure, the almost staccato voice, and the starkness of style and language reflect the circumstances so well that the reader cannot help being pulled into the discordant rhythms of those chaotic hours…The tone is.visceral and very appropriate to the atmosphere created by the storm and its consequences. Though not present during the disastrous days, interviewed more than 500 participants, from hospital executives to family members, prosecutors and ethicists, recording their comments and descriptions so meticulously that her gripping narrative captures not only the facts of the situation, but the thoughts of her witnesses and the feverishly unfolding disorder, confusion and tragedy. ![]() Five Days at Memorial is social reporting of the first rank. Sheri Fink has written an unforgettable story. She writes with a seasoned sense of how doctors and nurses improvise in emergencies, and about the ethical realms in which they work. This approach is a literary gamble, demanding more of readers than a standard-issue medical thriller would. Fink has slowed the narrative pulse to investigate situational ethics: what happens when caregivers steeped in medicine's supreme value, preserving life, face traumatic choices as the standards of civilization collapse. ![]() Although she had the material for a gripping disaster story, Dr. ![]()
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