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

by Sheri Fink

Many Memorial employees had long ago stopped seeing water as a significant threat.

“Due to market-driven health-care reform, the days of stand-alone community hospitals are limited.”

she was a marshmallow, a cream puff.

A chaplain who came to search for survivors compared what he saw when he entered Memorial’s chapel with Dante’s The Divine Comedy.