“She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” Dr. Lorna Breen's father said of her tireless work on the front lines of the pandemic.
Dr. Lorna Breen, who served as the medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan, died Sunday in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she was staying with family, her father“She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” her father, Dr. Philip C. Breen, told the Times.Dr. Lorna Breen served as the medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan.
The elder Breen said his daughter, 49, had contracted the coronavirus and went back to work after about a week and a half of recovery. She was sent home again by the hospital and then her family intervened to bring her to Charlottesville. He said she didn’t have a history of mental illness but that the last time they spoke she sounded detached as though something was wrong. This followed her recalling some of the challenges of her work in New York, which has seen more coronavirus cases than anywhere else in the country, including patients dying before they could be taken out of ambulances.“Dr.
Charlottesville police, which confirmed her death from self-inflicted injuries, emphasized the extreme toll that health care professionals and first responders are under amid the pandemic, which has killed more than 53,000 people so far in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“On a daily basis, these professionals operate under the most stressful of circumstances, and the Coronavirus has introduced additional stressors,” said Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney in a statement. “Personal Protective Equipment can reduce the likelihood of being infected, but ... they cannot protect heroes like Dr. Lorna Breen, or our first responders against is the emotional and mental devastation caused by this disease.
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