近日，一名紐約醫生的自殺引發廣泛關注。
當地時間4月26日，紐約長老會艾倫醫院（NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital）的急診科主任Lorna M. Breen選擇自殺結束了生命。
Breen醫生的父親說，女兒每天面對過多的悲劇，身心都深受壓力。
“She had described to him an onslaught of patients who were dying before they could even be taken out of ambulances.”
“她向我描述了病毒是怎樣攻擊病患的，人們還沒有出急救車就已經奄奄一息了。”
圖源：紐約時報
採訪中，Breen醫生的父親說，女兒生前是一名活潑的戶外運動愛好者，並沒有任何精神疾病史。
疫情暴發以來，一線工作的她也曾一度被感染，康復後又立馬回到救治崗位。但沒想到，她竟突然以這種方式結束了自己的生命。
A top emergency room doctor at a Manhattan hospital that treated many coronavirus patients died by suicide on Sunday. Dr. Breen had contracted the coronavirus but had gone back to work after recuperating for about a week and a half. Dr. Breen, 49, did not have a history of mental illness, her father said.
他說，女兒是這場疫情中的英雄，也是眾多受害者之一。
“Make sure she’s praised as a hero, because she was. She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.”
“她是這場疫情中的英雄，同時也是眾多受害者中的一個。”
醫護巨大的精神壓力
當前，美國疫情情況不容樂觀。各地醫護人員面臨著巨大挑戰，而Breen醫生的不幸遭遇，正是這一困境的縮影。
紐約一醫院護理科副主任Lawrence A. Melniker就表示，新冠肺炎疫情給當地醫護帶來了非同尋常的精神健康挑戰。
Dr. Melniker said the coronavirus had presented unusual mental health challenges for emergency physicians throughout New York, the epicenter of the crisis in the United States.
他說，雖然醫生們已經習慣於應對各種慘劇，但是以往他們並不用擔心自己會感染，或傳染給同事和親友，也很少需要救治自己的同事。
Doctors are accustomed to responding to all sorts of grisly tragedies, he said. But rarely do they have to worry about getting sick themselves, or about infecting their colleagues, friends and family members.
And rarely do they have to treat their own co-workers.
這次疫情中，美國醫療工作者所面臨的壓力不僅來自照顧與日俱增的病患，還有巨大的精神壓力。
於此同時，醫療物資的短缺讓醫護面臨更加艱難的困境。
當地時間4月26日，美國政客新聞網（Politico）文章指出，雖然特朗普總統在多個場合宣稱醫療物資充足，短缺問題得到了解決，但是文章作者採訪了全美17位醫護人員，卻得到了相反的答案，他們仍然在為口罩、手套以及防護服絞盡腦汁。
圖源：紐約時報
President Donald Trump often opens his evening news briefings on the pandemic by rattling off a list of actions his administration has taken to secure protective gear for frontline health workers, claiming dire shortages have been resolved. But hospitals, nursing homes and caregivers across the country tell POLITICO they are still struggling to obtain medical masks, gloves and gowns, undercutting Trump’s assertions.醫護人員與抗議者的對峙
當地時間4月28日，北卡羅來納州出現新一輪的抗議遊行，反對居家隔離，呼籲重啟經濟。
圖源：AFP/Getty
北卡羅來納州醫護人員不得不離開崗位組織反抗議遊行，呼籲人們呆在家裡，而不是跑出來抗議隔離，要求復工。同時他們還舉著抨擊陰謀論的標語，告訴抗議者真實情況。
Health care workers in North Carolina on Tuesday held a counter protest against yet another “ReOpen NC” rally in the state capital. These protesters carried signs promoting debunked conspiracy theories about COVID-19.
與那些瘋狂的示威者不同，醫護人員們帶著口罩，保持距離，進行了抗議。
圖源：赫芬頓郵報
護士在科羅拉多州首府丹佛市街頭阻擋前去抗議的民眾 圖源：AJ+
面對示威者重新開放的要求，醫護人員如是說：
“My grandma taught me not to argue with a fool because onlookers can’t tell who’s who.”
“我祖母告誡我不要跟蠢貨爭論，不然別人看了都分不清誰是蠢的那一個。”
圖源：赫芬頓郵報
一名參與遊行的醫學生說：“ ‘勿傷害’是我們入職的宣言，而這些復工示威者卻在用實際行動相互傷害。然後他們跑來質問我們，是不是美國人。”
“We take an oath to ‘do no harm,’ and these protesters are literally causing harm, the people who are trying to reopen our state to infection and death want to know if we are American” she said in the press release.
據美媒報道，示威者組織者之一的Audrey Whitlock此前稱已確認感染新冠病毒，被“強制”居家隔離。
Audrey Whitlock wrote on the Reopen NC Facebook page to announce Sunday marked her last day of a two-week period in quarantine.
Describing herself as “an asymptomatic COVID19 positive patient,” Whitlock claimed she has been “forced” to self-isolate and, therefore, was “imprisoned in my home.”
近幾周，美國多地出現要求復工的示威遊行。大多數遊行者認為，疫情帶來的經濟損失比疫情本身更嚴重。
不過，雅虎民調顯示，僅22%參與調查者支持解除疫情防控。
根據美國約翰斯·霍普金斯大學的統計數據顯示，截至北京時間5月2日6時32分，美國新冠肺炎累計確診病例已超110萬，死亡病例達64600例。
編輯：秋天
實習生：張恆 曾沁雯
來源：紐約時報 政客新聞網 赫芬頓郵報
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