Dr. Lorna Breen. |
Her
name is Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at
New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Va where she was
staying with family, her father said in an interview.
Her
father, Dr. Philip C. Breen, said she had described devastating scenes of the
toll the coronavirus took on patients.
“She
tried to do her job, and it killed her,” he said.
The
elder Dr. Breen said his daughter had contracted the coronavirus but had gone
back to work after recuperating for about a week and a half. The hospital sent
her home again, before her family intervened to bring her to Charlottesville,
he said.
Dr.
Breen, 49, did not have a history of mental illness, her father said. But he
said that when he last spoke with her, she seemed detached, and he could tell
something was wrong. She had described to him an onslaught of patients who were
dying before they could even be taken out of ambulances.
“She
was truly in the trenches of the front line,” he said, adding that the United
States should “Make sure she’s praised
as a hero, because she was. She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who
has died.”
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