The family of a top New York City emergency room doctor who recently died by suicide is speaking out about the mental struggle health care workers are facing amid the coronavirus pandemic as well as the possibility that the virus may have “altered her brain” after she became infected herself. Dr. Lorna Breen, who served as…
Published on Apr 29, 2020Dr. Mario Ramirez, an emergency room physician treating COVID-19 patients, joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss what Dr. Fauci calls "good news" from a coronavirus drug treatment trial, and the outlook for the development of a coronavirus vaccine. Ramirez also served as a pandemic and emerging threats coordinator at the Dept. of…
CLOSE Hospital staff celebrate as Henry Ford Health Doctor Scott Kaatz leaves the hospital after surviving COVID-19 and neighbors serenade him to the tune of Queen. Detroit Free PressEight days ago, Henry Ford Health doctor Scott Kaatz was on a ventilator, clinging to life.The 62-year-old physician had COVID-19, a virus that had ravaged his lungs,…
A top emergency room doctor at a Manhattan hospital that treated coronavirus patients died by suicide on Sunday, according to her father.Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Va., where she was staying with family, her father said in an interview.Tyler Hawn, a spokesman…
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