Top Manhattan ER doc commits suicide, shaken by coronavirus onslaught

[CatWoman]

The head of the emergency department at a Manhattan hospital committed suicide after spending days on the front lines of the coronavirus battle, her family said Monday.

“She tried to do her job, and it killed her,’’ Dr. Philip Breen told the New York Times of his physician daughter, Dr. Lorna Breen, who had been medical director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital amid the pandemic.

The battle-weary ER doctor, 49, was only the latest city healthcare worker to take her own life.

Two days earlier, a Bronx EMT witnessing the virus’s ruthless toll fatally shot himself with a gun belonging to his retired NYPD cop dad.

Tragic rookie paramedic John Mondello, 23, worked out of EMS Station 18 in The Bronx, which handles one of the biggest 911 call volumes in the city.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/27/manhattan-er-doc-lorna-breen-commits-suicide-shaken-by-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2XC71xXM4jF1NiviLK-p5-8zBrd9BtOinNhtB5UG3LsOHGvFn5HRmjwLE

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Dwell for a moment on the agony of this woman who cannot do enough, so she...

takes her life and can no longer do anything at all.

This is where we are.

[Me.]

2. So Sorry About This

Bless her and speed her on her way

[Ilsa]

3. The head nurse's vidso at the start of TRMS

said "we can't much more of this." If opening up economies means there is another onslaught of dying people, many nurses won't get through this. They already have PTSD.

[Joinfortmill]

4. I'll think of this

When I whine about social distancing. Poor soul.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. This is the consequences we're going to see because Republican governors think it's

manageable to open businesses as long as the positive cases and deaths are "under the curve."

Ignorant pricks. No human can sustain the level of stress that our medical community must endure and without the full support of PPE.

[onecaliberal]

6. :

[BSdetect]

7. Shocking

[area51]

8. Damn it.

[appalachiablue]

9. So tragic, 'self inflicted wounds' according to reports