1. Sheri Fink must have faced several challenges in creating this book because each of her 500 interviewees had their own personal experience to tell of this event which could probably be quite lengthy of a story. I think it would have been a struggle while researching for her story because she would have to pick and choose what was a fact and what was an opinion of the interviewees accounts of the events that took place.
2. I questioned why did it sound as if the doctors knew ahead of time who would stay and who would evacuate ahead of the storm? I believe the doctors were ultimately placed in the predicament to prematurely extinguish the lives of their patients because these were doctors who genuinely cared about their patient’s comfort levels physically and would be able to make a decision to end their lives for them if they were suffering badly. I don’t know what I would have done I’ve placed in that position to pick and choose who lives and who dies. My own personal beliefs would weigh heavy on me and would make it difficult for me to make a decision like that for someone else, this I know.
3. Some doctors and nurses were given exemption to the mandatory evacuation. The orders were given to remove all except the very critically ill people. The people knew the flood systems would not be able to handle the water overflow if there were to be another storm with flooding. This was known because of last storms where it had failed. Some “old knowledge “ and customs that were given were to have residents fill their bath tubs with water and buy canned goods.