Pulitzer Prize champion Sheri Fink’s landmark analysis of patient deaths at a fresh Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.

In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs 5 days at Memorial INFIRMARY and pulls the reader in to the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and maintain life amid chaos.

After Katrina struck as well as the floodwaters rose, the about Five Times at Memorial: Life and Death within a Storm-Ravaged Hospital power failed, and heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for recovery. Months later, several of those caregivers faced legal allegations that they intentionally injected numerous sufferers with drugs to hasten their fatalities.

Five Times at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a medical center fighting because of its life and right into a conversation on the subject of one of the most terrifying form of health care rationing.

Within a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life caution and reveals precisely how ill-prepared we are for the impact of large-scale disasters-and how we can perform better. A remarkable reserve, engrossing from begin to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your knowledge of human nature in crisis.

One of The New York Times’ Best Ten Books of the entire year