When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
While Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the dangers of failing to evacuate hospitals from the path of a storm, Hurricane Gustav demonstrated that moving thousands of sick people has its own risks. Gustav also highlighted a critical vulnerability of American hospitals -… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing… — Sheri Fink Copy Share
“They made a beautiful couple, with personalities as different as their heights.” — Sheri Fink Copy Share
But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm… — Sheri Fink Copy Share
If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to… — Sheri Fink Copy Share
It remains to be seen the extent to which the critical needs of seniors in low income high rises, people with home medical needs… — Sheri Fink Copy Share
“Rather than thinking about exceptional moral rules for exceptional moral situations,” Harvard’s Dr. Lachlan Forrow, who is also a palliative care specialist, wrote, “we… — Sheri Fink Copy Share
There are places in the world that the power goes out in hospitals, and there isn't clean water, and it's horrific. — Sheri Fink Copy Share
The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out… — Sheri Fink Copy Share
“A day later, a fax came into the unit from an attorney for LifeCare Hospitals of New Orleans. It reported that nine LifeCare patients… — Sheri Fink Copy Share
Our dreams are expressions of our inner beauty. I've learned that it's completely okay to want whatever you want. — Sheri Fink Copy Share
“We do not wish to capitalize the sufferings of human beings, but to relieve them.” — Sheri Fink Copy Share
Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have? — Sheri Fink Copy Share
Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the… — Sheri Fink Copy Share
