Was it murder?
Deborah Friedell: Disaster Medicine, 3 July 2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
by Sheri Fink.
Atlantic, 558 pp., £14.99, February 2014,978 1 78239 374 0 Show More
by Sheri Fink.
Atlantic, 558 pp., £14.99, February 2014,
“... things like that?’ In his memoir – self-published, self-justifying – the chief of medicine, Richard Deichmann, claimed it was necessary to shut down the hospital fast because ‘patients with all kinds of serious infections … in intimate, unsanitary conditions with everyone else’ could be an ‘explosive incubator for an infectious disease ... ”