{"id":64073,"date":"2020-04-28T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=64073"},"modified":"2020-04-28T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T03:01:09","slug":"top-manhattan-er-doc-commits-suicide-shaken-coronavirus-onslaught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=64073","title":{"rendered":"Top Manhattan ER doc commits suicide, shaken by coronavirus onslaught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the emergency department at a Manhattan hospital committed suicide after spending days on the front lines of the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0battle, her family said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe tried to do her job, and it killed her,\u2019\u2019 Dr. Philip Breen\u00a0told the New York Times\u00a0of his physician daughter, Dr. Lorna Breen, who had been medical director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital amid the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The battle-weary ER doctor, 49, was only the latest city healthcare worker to take her own life.<\/p>\n<p>Two days earlier, a Bronx EMT witnessing the virus\u2019s ruthless toll fatally shot himself with a gun belonging to his retired NYPD cop dad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Tragic rookie paramedic John Mondello,\u00a023, worked out of EMS Station 18 in The Bronx, which handles one of the biggest 911 call volumes in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Lorna died Sunday in Charlottesville, Va., where she\u2019d been staying with her family, the father told the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Breen said his daughter had gotten sick with the virus while on the job at one point, but then returned to work after about a week and a half of recuperating. Still, the hospital sent her home again, and her family brought her to Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>She had no history of mental illness, he said. But when they last spoke, she told him how excruciating it was to have to continually watch contagion patients die, including some even before they could be taken from the ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was truly in the trenches on the front line,\u2019\u2019 Philip Breen told the Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake sure she\u2019s praised as a hero,\u2019\u2019 he added. \u201cShe\u2019s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Reached later by The Post, Philip Breen, his voice cracking, said he was too distraught to talk further.<\/p>\n<p>Mental-health professionals told The Post that PTSD from the pandemic is becoming a very real crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe group that is most at risk are the front-line health care workers,\u2019\u2019 as well as the people who lost loved ones, said Stanford University Professor Debra Kaysen, head of the school\u2019s International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.<\/p>\n<p>An ICU doctor who works in the city said Monday that the onslaught of virus patients can be almost too much to handle for anyone at times.<\/p>\n<p>For a while, \u201cit felt like we were standing under a waterfall and couldn\u2019t get a breath for air,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cNow it feels busy but not in a way that\u2019s suffocating.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI was in a really low place. But I feel hopeful that I\u2019m starting to come out of it, finally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, \u201cIt\u2019s just very depressing because people in the ICU aren\u2019t really coming out of it, and I don\u2019t think my patients are going to live,\u2019\u2019 the doctor added.<\/p>\n<p>She admitted that she has mixed feelings about the people who clap outside her hospital and others to honor healthcare workers during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clappers make me cry whenever I hear them,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cBut also it\u2019s weird \u2014 because none of us feel like heroes because we feel so defeated by this disease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u2019s phone number is 1-800-273-8255.<\/p>\n<p>-Additional reporting by Carl Campanile<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the emergency department at a Manhattan hospital committed suicide after spending days on the front lines of the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0battle, her family said Monday. \u201cShe tried to do her job, and it killed her,\u2019\u2019 Dr. Philip Breen\u00a0told the New York Times\u00a0of his physician daughter, Dr. Lorna Breen, who had been medical director of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[4083],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - 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