Reading this article especially after Hurricane Sandy is extremely shocking. I feel as if many stories like the ones inside Memorial Medical Center will soon come out to the media. Its tragic that doctors and nurses were accused of giving patients morphine (etc) to “easy their pain” but then ultimately kill them. Sheri Fink leaves it up to the reader to form their own opinion whether or not we feel the doctors and nurses are guilty. Fink does not state her own opinion on the topic but paints a clear picture for the reader to decide.

During the Sandy, Mount Sinai’s generators failed to work just like Memorial during Katrina. We heard many stories about what happened in that hospital and its very similar to Fink’s story. Many nurses were carrying patients down many flights of stairs like Anna Pou had to. She manually pumped air into patients lungs as she was carrying them down seven flights, but this was not enough to keep them alive. I cant imagine being a nurse during a time like that, is it really the nurses faults?  People do not want to believe that the professionals who are suppose to help you are really hurting you. Its hard to even believe these accusations but. anything is possible during a time in need. You see the worst and best of people when they are put in a tragic situation.

Sheri Fink paints a clear picture of this tragic event. Even as a reader it seems surreal to me that this could happen in the United States but then after Hurricane Sandy my eyes are wide open to the tragedy that took place.