Doctors and nurses are dying by suicide, as America’s health care workers call for change
In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 swept through hospitals in the tri-state area, Dr. Lorna Breen, a physician who served as the medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, contracted COVID while caring for patients. Shortly after returning to work under relentlessly overwhelming circumstances, she died by suicide.
Dr. Breen had no prior mental health conditions.
As her story made national headlines, Dr. Breen’s death became …
