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NEW ORLEANS - JULY 18: Memorial Medical Center, which remains closed, is seen July 18, 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana. A doctor and two nurses who worked through the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were arrested and accused of euthanizing four desperately ill patients trapped in the flooded-out hospital. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

"Investigative reporter and physician Sheri Fink spent years investigating what really happened to the patients at New Orleans’s Memorial Medical Center four years ago, as Katrina raged and ravaged the city. Why did so many patients die, and why did doctors and nurses administer potentially lethal doses of a pain killer and sedative to them?"-New York Times. Fink joins Patt with a preview of her article - a journalistic co-venture between The Times and ProPublica.

Guest:

Sheri Fink, reporter for The New York Times. Her 13,000-word story, "The Deadly Choices at Memorial Hospital," appears in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine. She is author of "War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival."