To support physicians’ mental health, we need a systemic overhaul

When COVID-19 first arrived in New York City last spring, Dr. Lorna Breen found herself at the epicenter of the crisis. Like so many emergency room doctors, she faced enormous challenges in those early weeks of the pandemic: 12-hour shifts spent on her feet, a scarcity of PPE and other critical supplies, and what she described as an “onslaught” of patients