num_pages: 256
description: With this debut emergency room doctor Meyer collaborates with journalist Koeppel to tell a personal account of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the narrative predominately revolves around Meyer's story it also includes vignettes from interviews with several other doctors nurses and medical assistants to indicate the wide range of U.S. health care workers' experiences. Meyer recounts the pandemic from the period before it was identified through its emergence in the United States the virus's terrifying uncontrolled community spread and concern about the long-term repercussions of COVID-19. The co-authors argue that forging personal connections is vital to practicing emergency medicine and they impart health care providers' efforts to compensate for the myriad ways that personal connection was hampered by pandemic precautionary measures. The book isn't only a document of trauma; it also notes moments of joy like when medical staff discovered new treatments with better patient outcomes or when Meyer's mentor survived after contracting the virus.
language: English
title: Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege
publisher: Crown