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I read this as a result of my trip to Nola. This book breaks down everything that went down at Memorial Hospital during Katrina and the flooding afterwards. This book covers what occurred but also many different points of view as the patients, staff, and families are left stranded with things growing more desperate by the hour. The book‘s second half follows the investigation into what occurred there and the resulting legal ramifications.

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1. Issac‘s Storm is about a hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas in the early days of forecasting.
2. I still need to read the tagged book. Especially now that it‘s a tv series.
3. I love a rainy day for reading.

#AlphabetGame Thanks for the tag @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks and @Allylu The tagged book is definitely one of the BEST NF reads EVER!! I LOVED this book!!! SOOO much to discuss- GREAT for bookclub discussion 🤓

Very well researched, this is the story of events at Memorial Baptist Hospital in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina. It‘s also about the legal questions and charges filed against a doctor & several nurses who decided to end the lives of some remaining patients. The book is long and quite detailed and left me with so much to think about. I‘m also realizing it left me pretty depressed. I need to find some uplifting books!

A shocking, horrifying book about Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, LA during and following hurricane Katrina in 2005. The epilogue was highly interesting, considering the events in NOLA prompted health and government officials to put into place pandemic and emergency responses.

Listened to almost 40% of this audiobook yesterday, and a little more today as I was spray sealing some paintings outside. I'm not feeling well today, so I'm trying hard to do things that bring me joy.

This was a difficult book to read. The author details the aftermath of Katrina at Memorial hospital in NOLA. No one was prepared for the breaking of the levees, especially the hospitals and administrations that oversee them. Doctors and nurses labored in horrible conditions trying to cate for critically ill patients. And moral decisions made that had such devastating consequences are documented in detail. Be prepared for heartbreak when reading.

This was an intense read. So many horrible things happen in just five days, so much loss of life and humanity. And this is just what was happening inside one building ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. The misinformation and rumors, the paralyzing fear of not being able to see beyond the moment, the almost total lack of communication- all of it puts the survivors of the storm in danger... from each other. A most chilling nonfiction book.

Listening to this for true crime book club and it's definitely a hard read!

Anyone else obsessed with bookmarks?! Got this one as a gift for Christmas from Barnes & Noble! Along with a much appreciated gift card 😌 Love the tassel so I can always see where I am at with my reading!

Also, I started this book before my last semester of college and ran out of time to finish it due to loads of school work. So, I am finishing it now. Better late than never!

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#StudentNurseLife

Just started listening to a new podcast about Hurricane Katrina https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/floodlines/ reminded me of this great tagged book #podcast

I finished six books in January, all for #ReadHarder tasks - putting me already 1/4 done with the challenge! Five Days at Memorial was the hardest read and the one that will stick with me the longest. The March books are a close runner up and I'm looking forward to finishing Book 3 soon. The other three books didn't quite land for me for various reasons but were still worth reading. #JanuaryWrapUp #MonthlyWrapUp

I was a grad student living close to New Orleans when Katrina hit and books about it are still tough for me to read. This book though is an important reminder that our healthcare system needs plans in place to ensure the safety of all people in any given situation. I can't imagine being faced with the decisions the doctors were faced with and I can't judge their actions. I can only hope we learn from disasters like this to be better prepared.

Heartbreaking, harrowing, and infuriating, this book is an incredible work of journalism. It's a difficult read, but I highly recommend it if you can handle the subject matter, especially if you're interested in medical ethics or emergency preparedness. I thought the epilogue, describing what has and hasn't changed since 2005, was particularly good.

#ReadHarder2020: a book about a natural disaster #ReadHarder

I just learned a new word: mumpsimus.

A traditional custom or idea adhered to although shown to be unreasonable.

Origin: mid 16th century, erroneously for Latin sumpsimus... in allusion to the story of an illiterate priest who, when corrected for reading "quod in ore mumpsimus," replied "I will not change my old mumpsimus for your new sumpsimus." (Oxford Dictionary of English)

You're a doctor in a hospital hit by a hurricane, generators flooding, losing power, rationing medication and water, without running water or sanitary bathrooms. You've lost communication with the outside world and you need to evacuate as many patients as possible. What do you do? Is euthanasia an option? Is it murder? What do you think you would do?
#BBRC #UGH @LibrarianRyan

I've just realized that I'm going to have to shelve this book on my history shelf on goodreads. It's freaking me out a little - since when are things that happened within my adult life “history“?

I've found my #UGH book for #BBRC #GrownUp section!! Having worked at a hospital during the 2003 blackout and living in a hurricane prone area, I don't think I've been this frustrated listening to a book in a long time!!! 😡 I'll never forget the helplessness we felt during Katrina and thinking about these poor people left behind is killing me! @LibrarianRyan

My general strategy for the #ReadHarder challenge is to start with books that I expect to be difficult, so that I can get the harder things out of the way while I'm still excited about the challenge. So I'm starting off with task 5, a book about a natural disaster, and reading about Hurricane Katrina. I can already tell this one is going to be emotionally draining. #ReadHarder2020

Thank you so so much @Deifio I loved reading about your Christmas traditions and imagining what you and your family are doing tonight. I love the chocolate - big time! And I‘ve wanted to read this book for a while - you‘re right - a bit serious for Christmas but I‘m happy! Thank you so much. Happy Christmas. 🎅🎅🎅🎅#jolabolaflodswap

#NFNov I don‘t think I‘ll be completing the board by Sunday, but I‘ll still be ticking things off through to the end of the year. The tagged book has upset me a great deal but if we don‘t look at the awful stuff, it has a greater chance of happening again. I think it‘s a travesty that Anna Pou got away with a horrendous act & kept her licence. I can‘t imagine the conditions there, but they had multiple other choices besides doping them to death😡

Wow. This #NFNov read has left me both infuriated & depressed. I cannot believe that in an advanced country like the US not only that this could happen, but that the medical people involved weren‘t just not prosecuted, they all kept their medical licences. And “Dr” Pou is now advising on ethics considerations. Unbelievable. How come Charity Hospital managed to save most of their patients under the same conditions?

This book! Every time I think I‘ve just read the worst thing that happened, it turns around and punches me in the stomach again. As a disabled patient, it scares the hell out of me. As a #NFNov read, it‘s riveting but oh so horrifying. #TIL-in the worst of the chaos, when the oxygen was running out, some staff were using it to cool themselves down when sick patients were struggling to breathe😡

Sitting in the car reading this #NFNov read after my CT scan. And oh my lord is it hot! It‘s 34C(93F)but in the car it‘s climbing rapidly. This book is making me infuriated & sad in turn, as a disabled person myself I have nightmares about what would happen to me in a disaster. #TIL-the owners of the hospital had some of their other hospitals offer to send helicopters, staff etc but they were told no, FEMA or the government had to do it😡

I‘m a bit late joining in the #WeeklyForecast party but better late than never I suppose! I‘m hoping to finish Leviathan Wakes today then I‘ll finish the tagged book. After that, it‘s another #NFNov read, either the book about Hedy Lamar, the WTC book or the biography of Valerie Taylor, an Aussie icon, shark & ocean conservationist & one half of the team that supplied all the shark footage for Jaws & numerous docos. We‘ll see how I do.

Woohoo! I finally managed to double the 24hrs in a #24B4Monday #readathon! I finished 3 books & got 1/2 through Loch Of The Dead, 3/4 of Leviathan Wakes & I‘m 100pgs into #NFNov read Five Days At Memorial. I got bugger all sleep & my eyes are fixing to fall out of my head but the tagged book is so good it‘s gonna be hard to put it down. I‘ll see if I can get some more chapters in before it‘s lights out. #TIL-profit driven healthcare sucks.

Checking in for the last stretch of my #24B4Monday #readathon I‘m having a late dinner while starting this #NFNov read about what happened at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina. It‘s over 450pgs so there‘s no way I‘ll finish it by the end but it‘s calling me to read it. Paired with my dinner of spicy sausages, herbed fried potatoes, peas & corn. Yum. #TIL-some of the medical personnel were charged with euthanising patients after the storm.

Bk1 in this weeks #libraryhaul is for #NFNov It tells the story of what happened in one hospital during Hurricane Katrina, from the chaos of evacuation to the court cases brought against medical personnel accusing them of leaving or helping patients to die. It also shows how unprepared they were for the disaster that unfolded despite years of warnings about the precarious state of New Orleans when major hurricanes happened.

WOW!! Such a comprehensive and complicated subject matter but never dry or overly academic. So much to contemplate. I wish I read this with my bookclub as there were numerous ethical and moral issues. I can‘t even imagine putting myself in any of these peoples shoes. Epilogue was interesting as it mentions Hurricane Sandy and the lessons learnt from Katrina.
#NonFictionNovember
#BookClubWorthy
#LiveAndLearn

Why have I waited so long to read this book?? It‘s absolutely compelling. To read about the breakdown of a health care system in just a matter of days is horrifying. Hurricane Katrina was an unfathomable disaster but the lack of a plan for rescue is just mind boggling. All the praise to the nurses who showed what it means to be angels of mercy. #NonfictionNovember

Up next / one for #NonfictionNovember and a cover that‘s calling to me. Five Days was gifted to me nearly 2 years ago from the lovely @Bklover & Speak No Evil was a gift from @Hooked_on_books ❣️❣️Excited to try both books, thanks friends 🙏🏼😘

Today is my big 4-0! Hoping to sneak in a nap and some dedicated reading time ♡

#spooky50k - congratulations on your milestone @MatchlessMarie ! My spooky Halloween tradition is not so spooky - I love watching my kiddo and her friends trick or treating. Some people really do their homes up spookily!

This book was really hard to read, but it raises questions we should all think about. The first part moves surprisingly slowly yet still was a bit hard to follow with the discursive back-stories, and incredibly hard to read because of the subject matter - the possible euthanasia of a number of patients at Memorial Hospital post-Katrina. The second part just sails by.
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My sweet reading companion and I are loving this book. Definitely the most interesting non-fiction I‘ve read in a long time.

I have anxiety just reading the weather alerts that were sent out on the first day of Katrina. I absolutely can‘t even imagine what it would be like to experience this.

I‘ve been wanting to read this book for quite some time, and it‘s now on the required reading for my Emergency Preparedness course (I‘m an MPH student)! Excited to start class Monday.

Rain storm: Five Days at Memorial ( Hurricane Katrina) #understatement

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#readingUSA2019
#Louisiana

This book was so well researched and written. I obsessed about Hurricane Katrina when it occurred and watched this trial when it was ongoing. I just happened by it on my library recommendations list. So glad I found it.

This is so good. This is the story of Hurricane Katrina and the hospital that turned into a war zone. Our government really failed with this Hurricane as with hose that have followed. I can‘t put this down.

I‘ve never been through a crisis like Katrina, so I can‘t even imagine the difficult decisions these medical professionals had to make. It seems like a lot was learned, but how does one decide which patients receive care over others? The author does a great job reporting on all sides of the story. #MountTBR #Audible #LitsyAtoZ #ReadingUSA #Louisiana @BookishMarginalia @Librarybelle

FINALLY have my hands on this one. I‘m so excited and can‘t wait to finish the book I‘m listening to so I can start it. #nonfiction #audiobook

This book was so hard to put down but also hard to read. As a resident physician, I understand some of the things that must have been going through these providers‘ minds. But never having been in a crisis situation, I can‘t fathom the chaos and helplessness that must have been pervasive. If nothing else, I have certainly learned a lot about my particular feelings regarding the topics discussed in these pages. Very excellent and thought-provoking.

This book is absolutely heartbreaking!

Started this one recently and it‘s so hard to put down! The prologue had me hooked like that!

Taking some quiet time to read while on a family visit #PureMichigan

A snoring dog and a book on my lap ... what else could I want on a Sunday afternoon? #cozyandhappy