President Biden signed the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, named after a Columbia emergency medicine physician who died by suicide in 2020 during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Health care professionals often forgo mental health treatment due to the significant stigma in both our society and the medical community, as well as due to the fear of professional repercussions," said Angela Mills, MD, chair of emergency medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Breen was recovering from COVID-19 and struggling both mentally and physically at the time, but chose to work 12-hour shifts. Her family says she would stay well past the end of her shifts and became so overworked. She feared losing her medical license and receiving criticism from colleagues if she let it be known that she was"suffering" from the workload, her family said.
President Joe Biden signed the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, which allots federal funding for the mental health of medical workers, as the pandemic continues to strain medical facilities across the U.S. Above, Dr. James Samuel Pope speaks to a fellow doctor about a patient with COVID-19 at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 18, 2022.
The foundation said it hopes the new law will prevent other health care worker suicides by providing medical staff with much-needed support. The law will provide up to $135 million over three years to improve medical workers' mental health.
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