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1. "A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient." ~ Sheri Fink
2. "Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones." ~ Sheri Fink
3. "The threat from extreme weather events highlights the importance of investing in preparedness." ~ Sheri Fink
4. "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
5. "There is a tomorrow after a disaster, and it's sometimes hard to remember that in the midst of it." ~ Sheri Fink
6. "Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short." ~ Sheri Fink
7. "Ever since Katrina, there has been a proliferation of efforts at the state level and among hospital administrators to come up with guidelines that would help professionals stuck in a situation like this to prioritize patients. These are questions of values much more than they are of medicine or nursing. They're the province of everybody." ~ Sheri Fink
8. "Having worked in disasters, I have seen that, in those critical first few hours, those first few days - so much ends up riding on you and your neighbor and whoever is around. The official response always comes later, and it always feels like it comes too slow." ~ Sheri Fink
9. "If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed." ~ Sheri Fink
10. "It remains to be seen the extent to which the critical needs of seniors in low income high rises, people with home medical needs and those with disabilities have been adequately planned for and met during widespread power outages. I fear the answers." ~ Sheri Fink
11. "The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting." ~ Sheri Fink
12. "The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster." ~ Sheri Fink
13. "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 if they had been evacuated sooner." ~ Sheri Fink
14. "Those who did better were those who didn't wait idly for help to arrive. In the end, with systems crashing and failing, what mattered most and had the greatest immediate effects were the actions and decisions made in the midst of a crisis by individuals." ~ Sheri Fink
15. "Good should be done regardless of the difficulties of the time and regardless of the level of power or importance that one possesses. (Dr. Boro Lazic)" ~ Sheri Fink
16. "They made a beautiful couple, with personalities as different as their heights." ~ Sheri Fink
17. "When I made my mother a DNR, I did not know it meant "do not rescue." ~ Sheri Fink
18. "Despite the request, and the fact that executives from some Tenet hospitals, like Atlanta, had already expressed a willingness to provide evacuation support, Tenet officials continued to rely on governmental resources to respond to the emergency." ~ Sheri Fink
19. "Emergencies are crucibles that contain and reveal the daily, slower-burning problems of medicine and beyond—our vulnerabilities; our trouble grappling with uncertainty, how we die, how we prioritize and divide what is most precious and vital and limited; even our biases and blindnesses." ~ Sheri Fink
20. "Concepts of triage and medical rationing are a barometer of how those in power in a society value human life." ~ Sheri Fink
21. "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, whom we believe is not an employee of LifeCare) at a time when it appeared that the patients could not be successfully evacuated." ~ Sheri Fink
22. "Sometimes the ethical—the most important ethical question sometimes is the one you ask not at the moment of crisis, but the duty you have to anticipate certain kinds of crises and avoid them." ~ Sheri Fink
23. "We do not wish to capitalize the sufferings of human beings, but to relieve them." ~ Sheri Fink

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