{"product_id":"every-minute-is-a-day-a-doctor-an-emergency-room-and-a-city-under-siege-hardcover","title":"Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Meyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDan Koeppel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Remarkable and inspiring . . . We're lucky to have this vivid firsthand account.\"--A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Living Biblically \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen former \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eOn a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are?\u003c\/i\u003e Koeppel asked. Meyer's grave reply--100--was merely the cusp of the crisis that would soon touch every part of the globe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eEvery Minute Is a Day \u003c\/i\u003etakes 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs fast-paced and high-tempo as the ER in which it takes place, \u003ci\u003eEvery Minute Is a Day \u003c\/i\u003eis at its core an incomparable firsthand account of unrelenting compassion, and a reminder that every human life deserves a chance to be saved.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Meyer, MD \u003c\/b\u003ehas been an emergency room doctor for over twenty-five years, spending most of his career at the Bronx's Montefiore Medical Center, whose emergency rooms are New York City's most visited, and among the nation's five busiest. He is as well an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Meyer grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in Hartsdale, New York, with his wife, Janet. He has two grown children, one in college and one in medical school. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Koeppel \u003c\/b\u003eis a former executive editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWirecutter. He has written for national publications including \u003ci\u003eWired, Outside, National Geographic, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003eand has won a James Beard Award for his food writing. Koeppel is also a recipient of a National Geographic Expeditions Grant. His screenwriting credits include \u003ci\u003eStar Trek: The Next Generation, \u003c\/i\u003e and he is the author of \u003ci\u003eBanana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has been anthologized three times in the \u003ci\u003eBest American\u003c\/i\u003e series. He grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in Portland, Maine, with his wife, the writer Kalee Thompson, and his two young boys.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 8.71 x 5.77 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42162701336711,"sku":"9780593238592","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c67f69eb431c1e94e29e2cb9bcd0500c.webp?v=1733291544","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/every-minute-is-a-day-a-doctor-an-emergency-room-and-a-city-under-siege-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}