{"product_id":"every-minute-is-a-day-robert-meyer-9780593238592","title":"Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege","description":"\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. \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Meyer, Dan Koeppel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593238591\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593238592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.71h x 5.77w x 1.06d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2021 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2021 pg. 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/13\/2021","brand":"Robert Meyer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44055074963711,"sku":"9780593238592","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e6a8c85-da8f-468b-b40d-a56b9d6595f6.jpg?v=1685033642","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/every-minute-is-a-day-robert-meyer-9780593238592","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}