Corey Feist, JD, MBA

Corey Feist is co-founder, Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation.

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Conditions and diseases

Health workers deserve care too: How to protect their mental health

Corey Feist, JD, MBA & Kim Downey, PT

May 9, 2025May 9, 2025

Kim Downey: A friend shared with me how she told someone their mutual physician was on medical leave. She heard it was serious. That person's immediate response was concern over how it would affect their upcoming appointment. My friend said…

Kim Downey:

A friend shared with me how she told someone their mutual physician was on medical leave. She heard it was serious. That person’s immediate response was concern over how it would affect their upcoming appointment. My friend said she thought of my advocacy work, initiating a conversation fostering empathy for the struggling physician.

I read a post by a surgeon, with fellow doctors commenting

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Health policy

A step forward: a way to advance the mental health of health care professionals

May 1, 2021May 1, 2021

On April 26, 2020, the nation was shocked by the suicide of Dr. Lorna Breen, a New York City emergency physician who was recovering from COVID-19 in Virginia. Dr. Breen is one of an unknown number of health care professionals who have experienced mental illness or taken their lives over the past year. Although this issue is longstanding, Dr. Lorna Breen’s tragic death has galvanized many in the health care …