Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

Anyone who’s attended an introductory college course on philosophy will recall the fiendish ethical puzzles professors would occasionally present the class. They’d range from “Would you steal food for your family?” to the Trolley Problem to worse. Because the questions were all hypothetical, it was hard to commit to the premise. The ethical hypotheticals came to mind as I read Sheri Fink’s engrossing Five Days at Memorial. Five Days at Memorial recounts the week doctors, nurses, patients, and family members spent at Memorial Medical Center when Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005. A week after the hospital was evacuated, 45 patients’ bodies were recovered. The first half of the book vividly describes the week of the storm and the evacuations; the second half is appropriately titled “The Reckoning” as investigators worked to find out what really happened at Memorial...

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