An urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front
lines of ground zero for Covid-19, from a senior doctor at New York
City's busiest emergency room
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"Remarkable and inspiring . . . We're lucky to have this vivid
firsthand account."--A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of
Living Biblically
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When former New York Times journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin
Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore
Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in
the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a
scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are?
Koeppel asked. Meyer's grave reply--100--was merely the cusp of the
crisis that would soon touch every part of the globe.
In need of an outlet to process the trauma of his working life over the
coming months, Meyer continued to update Koeppel with what he'd seen and
whom he'd treated. The result is an intimate record of historic turmoil
and grief from the perspective of a remarkably resilient ER doctor.
Every Minute Is a Day takes us into a hospital ravaged by Covid-19 and
is filled with the stories of promises made that may be impossible to
keep, of life or death choices for patients and their families, and of
selflessness on the part of medical professionals who put themselves at
incalculable risk.
As fast-paced and high-tempo as the ER in which it takes place, Every
Minute Is a Day is at its core an incomparable firsthand account of
unrelenting compassion, and a reminder that every human life deserves a
chance to be saved.
