Life and death in a hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina
An excerpt from Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. At last through the broken windows, the pulse of helicopter rotors and airboat propellers set the summer morning air throbbing with the promise of rescue. Floodwaters…
An excerpt from Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital.
At last through the broken windows, the pulse of helicopter rotors and airboat propellers set the summer morning air throbbing with the promise of rescue. Floodwaters unleashed by Hurricane Katrina had marooned hundreds of people at the hospital, where they had now spent four days. Doctors and nurses milled in the foul-smelling second-floor lobby. …
Life and death in a hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina
