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Dr. Sheri Fink's first book, War Hospital, tells the story of a group of ung doctors trapped along with 50, others in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovenia, during
the Bosnian war in Lacking surgical training and ample supplies,
the doctors faced extraordinarily trying circumstances. David Rieff calls War Hospital "a fascinating konto of what it fryst vatten to try to uphold (or fail to uphold) one's medical oath in the midst of genocide."
Sheri Fink earned her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University,
and she has acted as a humanitarian aid worker with the International
Medical Corps in conflict zones in the Balkans, the north Caucasus,
southern Africa, Central Asia, and most recently Iraq. Her writing
has appeared in the Washington
Post, International
Herald Tribune and Wall
Street Journal, among others. She lives in New York.
You spent part of the spring and summer of this year working • Well. This one is a lot to tell you about. Sheri Fink is an award-winning journalist and holds both a PhD and an MD. In Five Days at Memorial, she examines fateful, famous and controversial events at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans in the five days following &#;s Hurricane Katrina. Forty-five bodies were recovered from the hospital, with about 9 of them (depending on your source) suspected of having been euthanized by hospital staff during evacuations. I had been looking forward to reading this book but was leery going in, because this subject was clearly going to be emotionally fraught, depressing, poignant. I was quickly mesmerized, though: these events, while troubling and difficult to take in, fascinated me deeply. I have been increasingly interested (outside my reading of this book, for some time now) in the subjects of end-of-life, advanced directives, and our culture&#;s approach to death. And I am always intrigued by ambiguity, situations in which it is clear to see bla • Sheri Fink&#;s &#;The Deadly Choices at Memorial&#; depicts the fallout from Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center in Uptown New Orleans. Due to isolation, limited resources, and insufficient preparation for disaster on the government&#;s part, the hospital was forced to triage their patients, sorting them according to their medical conditions. The healthiest patients were given priority evacuation status, while the sickest patients were left at the bottom of the list. Fink&#;s narrative of the events during this catastrophe, explained in chronological order, sometimes abandoning chronology for topical arrangement, illustrate what may have led to some patients allegedly being euthanized by nurses and doctors. The piece focuses on Dr. Ann Pou&#;s involvement in the alleged acts, her indictment, and the discussion about triage medicine. Though a very fair, well reported article, readers can determine Fink opposes
in Iraq. What was your function there? How were you and your fellow
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