Wilson Award and the ALA Andrew Carnegie MedalAn NPR “Great Reads” Book, a Chicago Tribune Best Book, a Seattle Times Best Book, a Time Magazine Best Book, Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Nonfiction Book, a Christian Science Monitor Best Book, and a Kansas City Star Best BookPulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New 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 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. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the 2014 American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award (Public/Healthcare Consumers), a 2014 Science in Society Journalism Award, and the SIBA 2014 Book Award for NonfictionAn ALA Notable Book, finalist for the NYPL 2014 Helen Bernstein Award, and shortlisted for the PEN/E.O.
You’ll also be filled with sorrow and rage.One of the New York Times’s Best Ten Books of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2014 J. If you have the stomach to dig into a nightmarish tale of systemic failure and murky medical ethics, you’ll be rewarded with truly masterly performances. The ensemble-including Cherry Jones, Vera Farmiga, Adepero Oduye, and Julie Ann Emery-is working at the height of its powers. “Five Days,” created by John Ridley and Carlton Cuse, is not at all fun to watch-but it is excellent. As the conditions grew increasingly dire, doctors and administrators had to make heartbreaking life-or-death decisions, some of which later tipped into lawsuits and malpractice investigations, which the series also explores in stinging detail. For days, hundreds of suffering patients waited for a reprieve that never came, relying on dwindling fresh water and dying batteries.
The hospital, situated at the bottom of the New Orleans basin, went into full triage mode after the levees broke and it lost both electricity and outside aid as the floodwaters rose. The miniseries-adapted from the journalist Sheri Fink’s best-selling nonfiction book of the same name, which was an expansion of her Pulitzer-winning article-is a painful, painstaking vivisection of five harrowing days at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina, in 2005. The new Apple TV+ drama “Five Days at Memorial” is not easy viewing.
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