Number	24264
Subject	Health Care
Source	ProPublica
State	NY
Year	2009
Publication Date	08/30/2009; 09/12/2009; 09/23/2009; 10/16/2009; 10/18/2009; 10/25/2009; 11/23/2009; 12/27/2009; 01/02/2010
Summary	Reporter Sheri Fink takes a close look at the course of events at Memorial Medical Center in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The hospital was "cut off from the world" and doctors took drastic measures, some admitting to injecting gravely ill patients to quicken their death.
Category	Contest Entry
Pages	51
Keywords	Katrina; hurricane; hospital; medical center; Louisiana; New Orleans; flood;
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