"Our health care workers are facing a mental health crisis.I am proud the Dr. Lorna Breen Act which was recently signed into law is part of the solution and finally gives our health care heroes the mental health resources and treatment they deserve.wild.house.gov/media/press-re"Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Susan Wild:
"Dr. Kraus teaches medical students.During the pandemic, he felt an overwhelming doom he was sending residents to their death. Medical training is already intense, and Dr. Kraus said medical schools lacked the resources to help students cope with the traumas of the pandemic."Read on Twitter
"When Jason responded to 9-1-1 calls, the patients were already very sick and had to be taken right to the ICU.Unlike hospitals and medical schools, EMS had the structure to help paramedics cope with the traumas of the pandemic but many didn't want to leave their teams short."Read on Twitter
"Stories like these inspired my Dr. Lorna Breen Act, which provides critical mental health resources to our health care heroes.The law honors Dr. Lorna Breen, an emergency room physician in New York City who tragically died by suicide two years ago today.wild.house.gov/media/press-re"Read on Twitter