The COVID pandemic has led to increased awareness of the mental toll of being a health care worker, especially after the April 2020 suicide of Dr. Lorna Breen, an emergency room physician at New ...

Dr. Lorna Breen was unflappable — until she faced a new enemy. Credit...Chris Leary Photography Supported by By Corina Knoll Ali Watkins and Michael Rothfeld On an afternoon in early April ...

But the shattered city was further rocked when it learned that Dr. Lorna Breen of NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital had taken her own life on April 26, 2020, five years ago today. She had been a ...

Five years to the week after Dr. Lorna Breen died by suicide, her brother-in-law could be found walking the halls of Congress trying to persuade lawmakers to renew the law named in her honor ...

An estimated 300 to 400 doctors die by suicide each year. Dr. Lorna Breen was an emergency room physician in New York City in the early days of the pandemic, when hospitals were overwhelmed with ...