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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.
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 published in The New York Times Magazine in 2009.
Memorial Medical Center [a] in New Orleans, Louisiana was heavily damaged when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast 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]
This documentary is Spike Lee's third, preceded by 4 Little Girls (1997), about the Birmingham church bombing of 1963; and Jim Brown: All-American (2002), about the football player. Shooting for the film began three months after Hurricane Katrina hit, when Lee and his camera crew took the first of eight trips to New Orleans.
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Documentary films about Hurricane Katrina (2005). Pages in category "Documentary films about Hurricane Katrina" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Lucy was born the night Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Miami-Dade in August 2005. Power outages caused by the storm had spread to the hospital, recalled Arturo Fernandez, Lucy’s uncle and ...
The hospital provided many services, including emergency care, critical care, and organ transplantation services. It was abandoned in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina , a destructive Category 5 hurricane that hit New Orleans , Louisiana on August 29, 2005, and the even more destructive failure of the Federal levee system causing extensive ...