Lorna Breen, an emergency-room doctor in New York City, treated coronavirus patients on the frontline of the pandemic before coming down with the virus herself.
on the “alarming prevalence” of burnout among emergency-room clinicians. And while Breen had never showed signs of burnout herself, her family fears she, like countless other health-care workers, was silently enduring the burdens of her work and resisted seeking mental health help — fearing professional repercussions.
Kaine said the bill’s journey through Congress was unusual given that funding for those grant programs were provided in the American Rescue Plan last year before the Lorna Breen legislation had passed. The Department of Health and Human Services began distributing more than $100 million in grants to health-care providers across the country,
Va. relatives of front-line doctor who died by suicide press House to pass physicians’ mental health bill