Sheri Fink appears in the following:
Border Crossings Swell as Resources for Migrants Diminish
Thursday, March 07, 2019
As Hurricane Florence Approaches, What About the People Forced to Stay?
Thursday, September 13, 2018
The Troubling Emergency Response Failures After Hurricane Harvey
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Playing God: The Broadcast
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Fighting for Mental Health Care at Guantánamo
Monday, November 28, 2016
Playing God
Sunday, August 21, 2016
How Drug Shortages Determine Who Gets Treatment
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Sheri Fink on Five Days at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink investigates patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and tells the story of the quest for truth and justice following the storm. As floodwaters rose, the power failed, the heat climbed, and exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately hastened the deaths of some patients. Fink’s book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, the culmination of six years of reporting.
Investigating in New Orleans: Five Years after Katrina
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
We’ll take a look at New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina. Frontline correspondent and Pro-Publica reporter A.C. Thompson discusses the documentary “Law & Disorder:” a special report on a number of incidents in which police shot civilians in the hurricane’s aftermath. Also, Pro-Publica contributor Dr. Sheri Fink, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for her story, “The Deadly Choices at Memorial,” a joint effort between the New York Times Magazine and Pro-Publica, discusses hospital abuses in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. “Law and Disorder” airs Wednesday, August 25, at 9 pm ET on PBS.