The sister of an emergency room doctor who died by suicide while helping fight the coronavirus pandemic said that before her death, Dr. Lorna Breen had been in an “untenable” situation.
In an exclusive interview with “TODAY’s” Savannah Guthrie, Jennifer Feist said her sister was overcome by a grim combination of events. She contracted the virus, which Feist believed “altered her brain.” Eventually, Breen returned to work.
“She went back to the most horrific, unimaginable conditions,” Feist said, describing her sister as “somebody whose life’s calling is helping people, and she just couldn’t help enough people.”
“And the combination was just untenable,” Feist said.
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