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Just search new here. Welcome to the HBO Ideacast from Harvard Business Review.

I'm Sarah Green.

I'm talking today with HBO editor Andrew O'Connell,

who has written the Synthesis, which is the review,

in our March issue, and it's about disaster stories and why we're obsessed with them.

Andrew thanks for joining us today. Great to be here. So why do we love disaster stories?

Well disaster stories are great there. Of course you always want to know how they're going to end, you know, what's going to happen.

But even more than that, they're really great to read because you put yourself in the place with the person who's been lost in the woods or

knocked overboard or whatever it is and you think you know what would I do would I be able

to survive that when I have the grit or what I have the strength

but even more is the question of would I be able to make some of those difficult choices that people in disasters often have to make and the

moral stakes if they're really high they can make a story incredibly gripping.

Well and what are some of the stories that you looked at for this review?

Well, the centerpiece was Sherry Fink's wonderful story about Memorial Medical Center in New

Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

In the few days after the storm, it was just horrible at the hospital.

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