Mary R. Talen, PhD and Deborah Edberg, MD

For weeks, our health care workforce has been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic staring straight at mortality - their patients and their own.  They have been single-mindedly focused on the task at hand, doing what needs to be done while instinctually suppressing their emotional response.  The job requires this, and they have done it well. Yet, the tragic suicide of Dr. Lorna Breen has brought focus in a devastating ...

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