(ForEveryMom) The family of a top New York City doctor is heartbroken this week after she died by suicide over the weekend amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Lorna M. Breen, who served as the medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died on Sunday at the age of 49 while staying with family in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” her father, Dr. Philip C. Breen told The New York Times. “Make sure she’s praised as a hero, because she was. She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.”