Sheri Fink Libri

From Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionIn April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. There the doctors faced the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments of their lives.Drawing on extensive interviews, documents, and recorded materials she collected over four and a half years, doctor and journalist Sheri Fink tells the harrowing--and ultimately enlightening--story of these physicians and the three who try to help them: an idealistic internist from Doctors without Borders, who hopes that interposition of international aid workers will help prevent a massacre; an aspiring Bosnian surgeon willing to walk through minefields to reach the civilian wounded; and a Serb doctor on the opposite side of the front line with the army that is intent on destroying his former colleagues.With limited resources and a makeshift hospital overflowing with patients, how can these doctors decide who to save and who to let die? Will their duty to treat patients come into conflict with their own struggle to survive? And are there times when medical and humanitarian aid ironically prolong war and human suffering rather than helping to relieve it?

Here the author, a physician and reporter, provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths. She unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, of a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing. In this book, she exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are in America for the impact of large-scale disasters, and how we can do better

In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amidst chaos.

Julie, a thirty-something divorcee, finds herself yearning for lasting romantic love despite her successful career and supportive friends. On what would have been her first wedding anniversary, she indulges in cake alone and decides to embark on a humorous and poignant journey to discover true love in today's world. Her adventure is filled with unexpected twists, blending laughter and heartbreak as she navigates the complexities of modern relationships.

My Bliss Book: An Inspirational Journal for Daily Dream Building and Extraordinary Living is a daily empowerment journal to help you create more magic, joy, and passion in your life while achieving your wildest dreams! During this inspiring 12-week journey, you commit to daily practices that will magically transform your life as you apply pure intention, strategic focus, and inspired action. By setting goals, expressing gratitude, honoring your progress, celebrating your victories, and taking care of yourself, you will build the foundation for creating a truly extraordinary life. My hope is that this book helps you attract the most delightful, passionate, and fulfilling life beyond your wildest dreams. If you’re ready to make your life more magical than ever before: to have more fun, feel more fulfilled, create more art, and possibly to even leave a legacy, let’s have an adventure!

Skutečný příběh o chirurgii a boji o život. V dubnu 1992 hrstka mladých lékařů, z nichž ani jeden nebyl chirurgem, zůstala uvězněna spolu s 50 000 muži, ženami a dětmi v obklíčené enklávě kolem města Srebrenica, na území Bosny a Hercegoviny. Ve Srebrenici, městě, jehož tragický osud je stále aktuální, tito lékaři čelili nejintenzivnějšímu porofesnímu, etickému a osobnímu vypětí ve svých životech. Přeložil Petr Tůma.