As New Orleans dug itself out of the mess left by Hurricane Katrina, Sheri Fink began digging into puzzling deaths at one of the city’s hospitals.
She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for investigative reporting that has now grown into a book, “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital.” It’s a marvel of journalistic effort that brings an objective and sympathetic eye to the suffering and tough decisions at Memorial Medical Center.
