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Ep 65. The Fight to Protect Healthcare Workers: Licensing, Stigma, and the Law That's Saving Lives with J. Corey Feist
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- May 17, 2026
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Summary
When emergency room physician Dr. Lorna Breen died by suicide in April 2020 after working the front lines of COVID-19, her family including brother-in-law, J. Corey Feist faced an impossible choice, grieve in silence or speak out. He spoke out. What followed was thousands of healthcare workers saying: this is happening to me too. That flood of voices became the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation and ultimately the first federal law in America dedicated to protecting healthcare worker mental health, delivering over $110 million in funding and safeguarding more than 3 million clinicians from invasive licensing questions that once kept them from seeking care. In this conversation, Corey and Dr. Shabbir, get personal about the hidden cost of perfectionism in medicine, the systemic barriers that force healers to choose between their mental health and their careers, and what every person, clinician or not, can do right now to be part of the solution. Episode Takeaways: How licensing, credentialing, and insurance questions have long forced healthcare workers to hide mental health struggles, and the free solution that can fix it in as little as 48 hours Why Dr. Lorna Breen's story is not unique, and what thousands of similar stories reveal about a broken system, not broken individuals The dangerous intersection of perfectionism and medicine, and why this culture is costing lives Why the Dr. Lorna Breen Act's five-year extension means nothing without funding, and how you can contact Congress in under two minutes What patients, leaders, and colleagues can do today to make healthcare workers feel seen, supported, and safe enough to ask for help About the guest: J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA is a healthcare executive, co-founder and CEO of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation, and one…