We need to remember that 45 people died under the care of the medical staff at Memorial, and the evidence points to one doctor who helped put them to sleep, Dr. While Five Days at Memorial shows that doctors at Memorial gave compassionate care under difficult conditions, they also explore the ethical choices raised by the challenging logistics for the evacuation on the fifth day at Memorial. The story of Memorial Hospital did not end when the evacuations were completed. Like Fink's book, the TV drama leaves us with more questions than answers. In addition, the writers walk the viewers to a conclusion about the nature of accountability.
This series explores what constitutes heroism, what patient care is, and how people work or don't work together in a crisis. "Five Days at Memorial" reexamines Fink's findings in her book. The writers walked us through the leaders' decisions and painted a picture of desperation and helplessness. Five Days at Memorial shows the hospital slowly losing its resources and being effectively cut off from the outside world. We are brought into the lives of those making decisions and giving direction in the hospital. However, the story that John Ridley and Carlton Cuse told is that of resilience. This is a story of a hospital and a healthcare system unprepared to face the challenges of a disaster. As Messages get distorted, rumors metastasize, and communication degrades, no one knows if help is coming or not. They did an excellent job of showing how misinformation caused chaos caused by overheard bits of radio and TV broadcasts and the game of "telephone" gone wrong. Bryant King, and nurse Karen Wynn as outside conditions threaten the efficacy of their jobs. The creative team captured the conditions of the hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, effectively recreating the look and the feel of new Orleans' Memorial Medical Center over those days in September 2005,īeyond the visceral terror of doctors and patients seeing floodwaters rise outside their window, the program highlights the doctors and caregivers Dr. What series co-creators/writers/directors, John Ridley and Carlton Cuse, manage to explore a tragedy and zero in on how exactly a disaster can escalate out of control, even if all the individual steps seem manageable. Sheri Fink's book has been adapted for TV. The book provides extensive background on many patients, their family members, hospital staffers, public officials, and others significant to the story.
Five Days at Memorial is written in a straightforward journalistic style that is densely detailed with eyewitness testimony.
Lacking critical resources, the doctors make a drastic decision that will cause many patients to die via euthanasia.
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