Producer
Scott Rudin, whose credits include the recent Captain Phillips, just bought the
rights for Sheri Fink’s recent book, Five Days at Memorial, which is an in depth
investigation into hospitals that were affected by hurricane Katrina.
“In
the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter
Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the
reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to
maintain life amid chaos.
After
Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat
climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for
rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations
that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their
deaths.
"Five
Days at Memorial," the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the
mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital
fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of
health care rationing.
In a
voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the
hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are in
America for the impact of large-scale disasters— and how we can do better.”
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