Euthanasia

  • Dart Award Winner

    Apr 15 2010

    The Deadly Choices at Memorial

    Photo: Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum / The New York Times: 
Four years after Katr ...

    This gripping narrative, which exposes the decision-making that left 18 patients dead after injections of painkillers and sedatives in a flooded hospital in New Orleans, is a winner of the 2010 Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. It was originally published by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine in August, 2009.

  • Video Interview

    Aug 27 2009

    The Story Behind a 2010 Dart Award Winner

    
ProPublica reporter Sheri Fink discusses her story, "The Deadly Choices at Memorial."

    In a Katrina-flooded hospital, doctors injected patients with painkillers and sedatives. Were they easing their pain or speeding their deaths? In a 2009 interview, ProPublica reporter Sheri Fink, winner of the 2010 Dart Award, explains how she pursued the story.

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