# Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege - Hardcover

by **Robert Meyer** (Author), **Dan Koeppel** (Author)

**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.

### Author Biography

**Robert Meyer, MD** has 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.

**Dan Koeppel** is a former executive editor at _The New York Times_'s Wirecutter. He has written for national publications including _Wired, Outside, National Geographic,_ and _The Atlantic_ and 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 _Star Trek: The Next Generation,_ and he is the author of _Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World_. His writing has been anthologized three times in the _Best American_ 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.

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 1.06 x 8.71 x 5.77 IN

**Publication Date:** August 03, 2021

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