Lorna Breen

Lorna Breen (died April 26, 2020) was an American physician who was the emergency room director at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. She died by suicide in 2020, while taking a break with family in Charlottesville, Virginia during the coronavirus pandemic.

Lorna Breen
BornDanville 
Died26 April 2020 
Charlottesville 
Alma mater
OccupationPhysician 
Employer

Early life
New York-Presbyterian Allen hospital where was Lorna Breen working

Breen was born in Charlottesville, Virginia and raised in Danville, Pennsylvania.[1] She graduated from Wyoming Seminary in 1988.[2] She was educated at Medical College of Virginia and did a residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.[3]

Career

Breen worked in The Allen Hospital at the NewYork-Presbyterian, where during spring of 2020 she treated patients with COVID-19. She contracted the virus herself then went back to work after isolating for a week and a half. On a family break in Charlottesville, Virginia, she killed herself on April 26, 2020.[4][5] Her father said: "She was truly in the trenches of the frontline. She tried to do her job, and it killed her [...] Make sure she’s praised as a hero. Because she was, she’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died."[6]

Selected works
  • Breen, Lorna M. (1 September 1999). "What Should I Do If My Patient Does Not Speak English?". JAMA. 282 (9): 819. doi:10.1001/jama.282.9.819-JMS0901-3-1.
  • Chang, Bernard P.; Cato, Kenrick Dwain; Cassai, Mary; Breen, Lorna (November 2019). "Clinician burnout and its association with team based care in the Emergency Department". The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 37 (11): 2113–2114. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2019.06.032.
  • Brener, Michael I.; Tung, Jen; Stant, Jennifer; Sayan, Osman R.; Suh, Edward H.; Minutello, Robert M.; Sharma, Rahul; Brener, Sorin J.; Melniker, Lawrence A.; Moustakakis, Emmanuel N.; Neuberg, Gerald; Breen, Lorna M.; Nutovits, Ronald; Kats, Yuliya; Amaranto, Andrew; Pucillo, Anthony; Kirtane, Ajay J.; Rabbani, LeRoy E. (December 2019). "An Updated Healthcare System-Wide Clinical Pathway for Managing Patients With Chest Pain and Acute Coronary Syndromes". Critical Pathways in Cardiology. 18 (4): 167–175. doi:10.1097/HPC.0000000000000189.

References
  1. "Dr. Lorna M. Breen was born and raised in Danville". The Express. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  2. Hallikaar, Viktoria (2020-04-29). "Wyoming Seminary alumni react to suicide of NYC doctor, former classmate". WOLF. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  3. "Doctor directory – Lorna M. Breen M.D." Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Archived from the original on April 28, 2020.
  4. Watkins, Ali; Rothfeld, Michael; Rashbaum, William K.; Rosenthal, Brian M. (2020-04-27). "Top E.R. Doctor Who Treated Virus Patients Dies by Suicide". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  5. Iati, Marisa; Bellware, Kim (2020-04-29). "NYC emergency doctor dies by suicide, underscoring a secondary danger of the pandemic". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  6. Evelyn, Kenya (April 28, 2020). "New York ER doctor who treated coronavirus patients dies by suicide". The Guardian. Retrieved May 7, 2020.


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