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Family members of a prominent Manhattan emergency room doctor who died by suicide in Charlottesville say she was exhausted by her hospital’s battle with the coronavirus pandemic and her own bout with the disease.

Dr. Lorna Breen, 49, the medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died from self-inflicted injuries Sunday at the University of Virginia Medical Center. She had been recuperating at her sister’s Charlottesville home.

“She gave what she had,” her father, Dr. Philip C. Breen, told the New York Daily News, “and she’s a casualty of the war in the trenches, as far as I’m concerned. She’s a true hero.”

Breen’s father said the crush of cases his daughter handled in one of the nation’s worst COVID-19 epicenters was overwhelming and that she herself became ill with the virus, though she went back to work after a week and a half. She had no history of depression, he said.

“She was a very outgoing, very energetic person who, I don’t know what snapped, but something blew up in her, and so she ended up taking her own life,” he said. “She just ran out of emotional gas.”

He said his daughter traveled to Charlottesville to stay with her sister after the hospital sent her home a second time.