Scheduled for August 24-26, the event will bring together more than 50 physicians and wellness advocates to address a scourge that predates the pandemic.
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This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” I’m joined by Corey Feist and Wendy Dean to talk about the toll that practicing medicine can take on a health care worker’s mental health, and how the pandemic has made this worse.
Feist co-wrote an essay on legislation supporting physician mental health with his wife, Jennifer Breen Feist, the sister of Lorna Breen, a New York City emergency physician who died by suicide in April 2020 after contracting Covid-19 and then returning to work. Wendy Dean is a psychiatrist who wrote with fellow physician Simon Talbot an iconic First Opinion in 2018 about the moral injury that many physicians experience.
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Family of doctor who died by suicide amid pandemic share honor her legacy Duration: 07:25 Dr. Lorna Breen, a New York emergency room physician, died by suicide a year ago this week. Since then, her sister Jennifer and brother-in-law Corey Feist have focused on trying to make a difference in caring for health care professionals. “It was the combination of COVID and the culture in medicine that killed my sister,” Jennifer tells TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie.