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Sheri Fink

American Journalist

Disaster Power Remember Try Values You

Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison

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

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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

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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

You Slow Seen First Few Too Later Those Neighbor Response Critical Having Feels Days Like Disasters Hours Around Always Up Official Ends Worked Much Your Whoever Riding

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

World Water Power Out Horrific Clean Clean Water Hospitals Goes Places

There is a tomorrow after a disaster, and it's sometimes hard to remember that in the midst of it. Sheri Fink

Sometimes Remember Tomorrow Disaster After Midst Hard

While Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the dangers of failing to evacuate hospitals from the path of a storm, Hurricane Gustav demonstrated that moving thousands of sick people has its own risks. Gustav also highlighted a critical vulnerability of American hospitals - an inability to withstand prolonged blackouts. Sheri Fink

Risks People Path Own Sick Dangers Prolonged Critical Hurricane Hurricane Katrina Thousands Hospitals Failing Also Vulnerability Withstand American Storm Inability While Moving Katrina

In the United States, Western Europe and Japan, there is widespread access to dialysis, most of it publicly funded. But in many countries, the majority of patients who need dialysis die without it. Sheri Fink

States Countries Most Majority Without Access Western Western Europe Die Patients Japan Who Europe Many United Publicly United States Widespread Need

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