近日，一名纽约医生的自杀引发广泛关注。
当地时间4月26日，纽约长老会艾伦医院（NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital）的急诊科主任Lorna M. Breen选择自杀结束了生命。
Breen医生的父亲说，女儿每天面对过多的悲剧，身心都深受压力。
“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样攻击病患的，人们还没有出急救车就已经奄奄一息了。”
图源：纽约时报
采访中，Breen医生的父亲说，女儿生前是一名活泼的户外运动爱好者，并没有任何精神疾病史。
疫情暴发以来，一线工作的她也曾一度被感染，康复后又立马回到救治岗位。但没想到，她竟突然以这种方式结束了自己的生命。
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.
他说，女儿是这场疫情中的英雄，也是众多受害者之一。
“Make sure she’s praised as a hero, because she was. She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.”
“她是这场疫情中的英雄，同时也是众多受害者中的一个。”
医护巨大的精神压力
当前，美国疫情情况不容乐观。各地医护人员面临着巨大挑战，而Breen医生的不幸遭遇，正是这一困境的缩影。
纽约一医院护理科副主任Lawrence A. Melniker就表示，新冠肺炎疫情给当地医护带来了非同寻常的精神健康挑战。
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.
他说，虽然医生们已经习惯于应对各种惨剧，但是以往他们并不用担心自己会感染，或传染给同事和亲友，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.
这次疫情中，美国医疗工作者所面临的压力不仅来自照顾与日俱增的病患，还有巨大的精神压力。
于此同时，医疗物资的短缺让医护面临更加艰难的困境。
当地时间4月26日，美国政客新闻网（Politico）文章指出，虽然特朗普总统在多个场合宣称医疗物资充足，短缺问题得到了解决，但是文章作者采访了全美17位医护人员，却得到了相反的答案，他们仍然在为口罩、手套以及防护服绞尽脑汁。
图源：纽约时报
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.医护人员与抗议者的对峙
当地时间4月28日，北卡罗来纳州出现新一轮的抗议游行，反对居家隔离，呼吁重启经济。
图源：AFP/Getty
北卡罗来纳州医护人员不得不离开岗位组织反抗议游行，呼吁人们呆在家里，而不是跑出来抗议隔离，要求复工。同时他们还举着抨击阴谋论的标语，告诉抗议者真实情况。
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.
与那些疯狂的示威者不同，医护人员们带着口罩，保持距离，进行了抗议。
图源：赫芬顿邮报
护士在科罗拉多州首府丹佛市街头阻挡前去抗议的民众 图源：AJ+
面对示威者重新开放的要求，医护人员如是说：
“My grandma taught me not to argue with a fool because onlookers can’t tell who’s who.”
“我祖母告诫我不要跟蠢货争论，不然别人看了都分不清谁是蠢的那一个。”
图源：赫芬顿邮报
一名参与游行的医学生说：“ ‘勿伤害’是我们入职的宣言，而这些复工示威者却在用实际行动相互伤害。然后他们跑来质问我们，是不是美国人。”
“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.
据美媒报道，示威者组织者之一的Audrey Whitlock此前称已确认感染新冠病毒，被“强制”居家隔离。
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.”
近几周，美国多地出现要求复工的示威游行。大多数游行者认为，疫情带来的经济损失比疫情本身更严重。
不过，雅虎民调显示，仅22%参与调查者支持解除疫情防控。
根据美国约翰斯·霍普金斯大学的统计数据显示，截至北京时间5月2日6时32分，美国新冠肺炎累计确诊病例已超110万，死亡病例达64600例。
编辑：秋天
实习生：张恒 曾沁雯
来源：纽约时报 政客新闻网 赫芬顿邮报
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