Tomás Quintero’s Reviews > Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital > Status Update
Tomás Quintero
is 28% done
This is such a hard read, some of these scenes are absolutely terrible. Too many heartbreaking stories, have needed to put this book down several times. Makes me think about what the disasters of the future have in store, and whether we have learned from the past to lead a better prepared future.
— Apr 07, 2024 06:29AM
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Tomás Quintero
is 59% done
Gotten into the medical ethics legal proceedings, really asking what a life is worth vs quality of life. Makes me think of the clinical trials started at the lab with the young candidates who feel like they have nothing to lose
— Apr 14, 2024 07:38PM
Tomás Quintero
is 12% done
So far the imagery, the emotions, and the chaos throw you into what it means to be working in a nola hospital in 2005. These physicians were truly the arbiters of life and death by determining who would be worth saving and who would be euthanized given the present circumstances—an unenviable position that no amount of training can prepare anyone for
— Mar 28, 2024 08:59PM
