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The head of the emergency department of a New York hospital committed suicide this Sunday after spending many days at the forefront of the battle against the coronavirus in one of the cities hardest hit by the pandemic and after confessing to his relatives that he could not bear to see so many people die.
It’s about the doctor Lorna Breen and had been medical director of the emergency department of the New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, in Manhattan.
“She tried to do her job, and he killed her,” Dr. Philip Breen said to the The New York Times about her daughter, who followed in her footsteps in medicine.
The father said his daughter, 49, who died Sunday, had no history of mental illness. But she said the last time they spoke, her daughter told her how excruciating it was to watch coronavirus-infected patients die, some even before they could get them out of the ambulance.
“She was really in the trenches on the front line,” Philip Breen said to Times. “Make sure she is praised as a heroine,” she added. “She is a victim as much as any other person who has died.”
Lorna Breen He died in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he had stayed with his family for a few days, said the father, who recalled that Her daughter had fallen ill with the virus while at work, but she returned to work after approximately a week and a half of recovery. Still, the hospital sent her home again, and her family brought her to Virginia.
Two days before this doctor’s suicide, a city emergency paramedic, who also worked on the city’s battlefront against the virus, also killed himself.
In this case it was the young man John Mondello, 23, who last Friday used a gun registered by his father, a retired New York police officer, to commit suicide in Astoria, Queens, according to police sources. New York Post.
