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NYC ER doctor battled COVID-19 before taking her own life - New York Post

NYC ER doctor battled COVID-19 before taking her own life - New York Post

NYC ER doctor battled COVID-19 before taking her own life - New York Post
Jul 12, 2020 1 min, 7 secs

A heroic New York City emergency room doctor was driven to suicide in the depths of the coronavirus crisis, her family says — and the relentless strain of modern medicine, which rewards perfection and disdains weakness, is to blame.

Lorna Breen.

Like, as of today,” she told The New York Times.

Breen, 49, killed herself April 26, while medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Upper Manhattan, located in a low-income community that was especially hard hit by COVID-19.

Barbara Lock told The Times.

As coronavirus cases in New York began to multiply out of control this spring, leaving patients in her emergency room to be treated in hallways and bodies of victims to be stored in an X-ray room, Breen turned to her Bible study group for comfort.

A few days later Breen fell ill with the virus herself.

Studies in China, Canada and Italy have found that doctors treating coronavirus patients are increasingly afflicted with insomnia, anxiety and depression and insomnia, The Times noted.

By mid-April, almost paralyzed by the strain, Breen was hospitalized in a psychiatric unit in Charlottesville, Virginia, near her family home for more than a week.

Only days after her release, as she stayed temporarily with her mother, Breen killed herself?

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