Sheri Fink is the New York Times bestselling author of Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital and War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival. She is a correspondent at The New York Times, where her and her colleagues’ stories on the West Africa Ebola crisis were recognized with the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, the George Polk Award for health reporting, and the Overseas Press Club Hal Boyle Award. Her story “The Deadly Choices at Memorial,” co-published by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, received a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and a National Magazine Award for reporting. A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, Fink received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.
“That so many people, starkly divided over the question of whether
crimes had been committed, come off as decent and appealing makes
this book an absorbing read. Dr. Fink brings a shimmering
intelligence to its many narrative cul-de-sacs, which consider
medical, legal and ethical issues. . . . By reporting the depth of
those gruesome hours in Memorial before the helicopters came, and
giving weight to medical ethics as grounded in the law, Sheri Fink
has written an unforgettable story. Five Days at Memorial is
social reporting of the first rank.”—Jason Berry, The New York
Times
“What we have here is masterly reporting and the glow of fine
writing.”—Sherwin B. Nuland, The New York Times Book Review
“A stunning feat of journalism.”—New York Review of Books
“A triumph of journalism . . . Fink re-creates this world with
mastery and sensitivity, revealing the full humanity of each
character. Unlike post-storm commentary that jumped to black and
white conclusions, painting the doctors as heroes or villains,
Fink’s narrative wades through the muck and finds only real people
making tough choices under circumstances the rest of us, if we’re
lucky, will never experience.”—Houston Chronicle
“The journalist and doctor Sheri Fink published a meticulous
investigation of these deaths in the New York Times Magazine and on
the Web site of ProPublica, in 2009. Her work won a Pulitzer Prize.
And now comes the book. In Five Days at Memorial, the contours of
the story remain the same, yet Fink imbues them with far more
narrative richness, making the doctors seem both more sympathetic
and more culpable. Fink also expands on the ethical conundrums,
which have festered over time and seem to gain fresh urgency.”—The
New Yorker
“In a high-speed world that reduces reality to black and white,
Sheri Fink slows down to examine every achingly tough decision made
by medical responders to Hurricane Katrina. The riveting result is
nuanced and leaves you asking, ‘Well, what would I have done?’
Wow.”—Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and author of I
Heard the Sirens Scream
“Powerful . . . Fink, a trained physician turned journalist, is
able to recreate in minute detail the sights, smells and sounds of
Memorial in the days following the storm. It’s safe to say that her
medical background gave her a unique perspective, which, coupled
with her fine writing, offers the reader an evocative narrative of
how the hospital staff and patients struggled to cope with the lack
of electricity, climbing temperatures, and a sense that they might
not make it out alive.”—USA Today
“Fink, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who trained as a
physician, writes powerfully of the investigation into the Memorial
deaths and, in her epilogue, of subsequent disasters: the
earthquake in Haiti, Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast, an influenza
pandemic in India.”—Radhika Jones, Time
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