Collected Item: “Doctor cannot come to terms with the things she saw, takes her own life”
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Doctor cannot come to terms with the things she saw, takes her own life
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Text Story
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An emergency room doctor in New York committed suicide while staying with family in Virginia. Her family say she had become detached, and spoke of the horrors she saw while working with coronavirus victims. Her family would like her to be remembered as a hero. The doctor's family has set up a foundation that gives mental health support to health care providers.
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#HST484, #ASU, #healthcareheroes, #suicide, #coronavirus, #doctors, #healthcareprofessionals, #mentalhealthawareness
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https://web.archive.org/web/20201107042002/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/nyregion/new-york-city-doctor-suicide-coronavirus.html
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Ali Watkins, Michael Rothfeld, William Rashbaum and Brian Rosenthal
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2020-11-05