Forty-Third Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary, written on the day of the US hitting one million confirmed cases and for Dr. Lorna M. Breen, medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, who committed suicide last Sunday
onslaught of patients
wheeled into the ER
in the fray
She tried to do her job
and it killed her...
FYI: Caroline Orr's National Observer analysis on April 29, COVID-19 kills in many ways': The suicide crisis facing health-care workers
Front-line health care workers bear constant witness to the human toll of the #coronavirus pandemic. And all too often, they become part of it. -- RaShall Brackney
wheeled into the ER
in the fray
She tried to do her job
and it killed her...
FYI: Caroline Orr's National Observer analysis on April 29, COVID-19 kills in many ways': The suicide crisis facing health-care workers
Front-line health care workers bear constant witness to the human toll of the #coronavirus pandemic. And all too often, they become part of it. -- RaShall Brackney
Dr. Breen’s father, Dr. Philip C. Breen, said she had described devastating scenes of the toll the coronavirus took on patients.
ReplyDelete“She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” he said.
The elder Dr. Breen said his daughter had contracted the coronavirus but had gone back to work after recuperating for about a week and a half. The hospital sent her home again, before her family intervened to bring her to Charlottesville, he said.
Dr. Breen, 49, did not have a history of mental illness, her father said. But he said that when he last spoke with her, she seemed detached, and he could tell something was wrong...
-- excerpted from "Top E.R. Doctor Who Treated Virus Patients Dies by Suicide," The New York Times, April 27, accessed at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/nyregion/new-york-city-doctor-suicide-coronavirus.html