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Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in New Orleans. At Memorial Hospital, the doctors, nurses, and staff tend to patients and brace for the storm. A bridge going from one side of the hospital to the other looks like it might collapse, so Susan Mulderick orders Dr. Anna Pou to evacuate her team to the other side of the hospital.
ISBN. 978-0-307-71898-3. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American journalist Sheri Fink. The book details the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in August 2005, and is an expansion of a Pulitzer Prize -winning article written by Fink and ...
Memorial Medical Center [a] was heavily damaged when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, specifically Pearlington, MS on August 29, 2005. [1] In the aftermath of the storm, while the building had no electricity and went through catastrophic flooding after the levees failed, Dr. Anna Pou, along with other doctors and nurses, attempted to continue caring for patients. [2]
The situation seemed hopefully for many, but several charities and organizations -- both big and small -- stepped in to help. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) played a big role in ...
W. Walking on Dead Fish. When the Levees Broke. Categories: Documentary films about disasters. Documentary films about New Orleans. Films about Hurricane Katrina.
by JOHN DORN. The Mercedes-Benz Superdome is a landmark in the city of New Orleans. During Hurricane Katrina, then known as the Louisiana Superdome, the arena was used as a "shelter of last resort ...
e. Hurricane Katrina was a devastating tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane ...
v. t. e. As a result of Hurricane Katrina and its effects on New Orleans, Tulane University was closed for the second time in its history—the first being during the American Civil War. The university closed for four months during Katrina, as compared to four years during the Civil War. [1] The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine's ...