When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August 2005, the doctors and nurses at Memorial Medical Center were trapped with their patients without power for five days.
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August 2005, the doctors and nurses at Memorial Medical Center were trapped with their patients without power for five days. It was later alleged that some of the medical professionals decided to euthanasia patients while they waited to get evacuated, as reported by Sheri Fink in Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. The show—more disaster than true crime, but still harrowing—is based on this book, and stars Vera Farminga, Cherry Jones, and Cornelius Smith Jr.