FEMA and its emergency management partner organizations today released the video of Dr. Sheri Fink’s “Triage, Ethics, And Operations: Healthcare Emergency Preparedness and Response,” from the third PrepTalk symposium event on Sept. 6.
Dr. Fink is author of the Hurricane Katrina-related book “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital,” and her latest article, “Lost in the Storm,” tracks a family’s attempts to be rescued during Hurricane Harvey. Dr. Fink is a former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, and received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.
In her PrepTalk, Dr. Fink shares those two real-world case studies that demonstrate the value of situational awareness, the complexities of prioritizing limited resources, and the importance of ensuring systems can effectively support operational decisions.
“How we allocate the resources that we have in disasters; how we choose who gets the resources … is going to affect the outcome,” said Dr. Fink.
