How long does it take to read Five Days at Memorial?
Sherri Fink
Five Days at Memorial by Sherri Fink takes about 10 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 558 pages, about 153,450 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths. Fink unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing.
Subjects: Disaster hospitals, Case studies, Disaster medicine, Administration, Health facilities, Forensic pathology
