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 ...

“She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” said the father of Dr. Lorna M. Breen, who worked at a Manhattan hospital hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak. By Ali Watkins Michael Rothfeld ...

"She tried to do her job, and it killed her," Dr. Philip C. Breen said of his daughter, Dr. Lorna M. Breen Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been ...

Dr. Lorna Breen, 49, the medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, was staying with family in Charlottesville, Virginia. City police responded to a ...

“Words cannot convey the sense of loss we feel today,” the New York City hospitals where Breen worked said in a statement. “Dr. Breen is a hero who brought the highest ideals of medicine to ...

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 ...