http://comenius.org/winereadingwine A Club for Readers Tue, 27 May 2014 16:44:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://comenius.org/winereadingwine/?p=97 http://comenius.org/winereadingwine/?p=97#comments Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:58:45 +0000 http://comenius.org/winereadingwine/?p=97 Read more: A grim but fascinating book]]> I recently read Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink.  It reconstructs the horrible conditions faced by the staff of a hospital that became an island during Hurricane Katrina. They had no power and no running water, yet still had to care for 180 patients, many of them critically and/or terminally ill.  Temperatures inside reached 110 degrees. What actually happened there is still in dispute–but a doctor and two nurses were arrested for murder of 20 people.  The grand jury failed to indict them.  Was it murder, mercy killing, or administration of comfort care?

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