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Book Review of Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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This book is a little bit natural disaster, little bit medical drama, and a whole lot of true crime drama. Being a booklover of all three of the aforementioned genres, I was drawn to this book. I found the history of the hospital and the recounting of events up to and during the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe intriguing but the legal manuveuring and incessant debates of right and wrong to be too, too much. I was considering putting the book down and walking away from it because of the lengthy debates and legal posturing that was going on. As the book starts to wind down, the reader is able to guess what the legal outcome was. This was overall an interesting book, but overly long.