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 Image
“They made a beautiful couple, with personalities as different as their heights.” — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“A day later, a fax came into the unit from an attorney for LifeCare Hospitals of New Orleans. It reported that nine LifeCare patients on the seventh floor at Memorial had died under suspicious circumstances. Although we are just beginning to collect the relevant facts, we have information that the patients involved were administered morphine by a physician (Dr. Poe,… — 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 Image
“We do not wish to capitalize the sufferings of human beings, but to relieve them.” — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
