A Traumatic Crisis
The recent suicides of Lorna Breen, a New York doctor of emergency medicine and Bronx EMT John Mondello have drawn attention to the emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers. Hopefully their deaths do not portend a mental health crisis for the healthcare workers who provided care during the worst of the outbreak. Read on to explore the factors that may have affected these two tragic heroes, and to learn how PTSD and depression are concerns for healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients.
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