Top trauma surgeon found dead with knife in chest; police are treating it as a suicide (Update)

Daily Mail
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 21:42 UTC

Police said the death was being treated as a suicide, though no note was found, and that the body was discovered by Lorich's daughter. His wife, Deborah, left, was out playing tennis,

A surgeon to the stars has been found dead with a knife in his chest at his New York apartment while his 11-year-old daughter was at home.

The death of Dr. Dean Lorich, 54, is being treated as a suicide after his body was found in the bathroom of the Park Avenue apartment he shared with his family.

The father-of-three doctor's wife was playing tennis at the time.

The NYPD said that there were no signs of forced entry at the apartment, and have hinted he had been 'under some personal stress'.

The surgeon had a storied career, saving the lives of celebrities and members of both the NYPD and FDNY.

He treated Bono when was involved in a serious cycling accident in Central Park.

His daughter alerted the doorman of the apartment building after she found her father's lifeless body on Sunday. He then called 911.

It wasn't clear if Lorich may have ran afoul with the hospital where he worked, being under review or accused of serious allegations.

It was not clear if the man was under medication or had been suffering from depression.

According to the New York Daily News one of Lorich's colleagues spoke to the doorman of his building and fell to her knees in prayer after hearing of the terrible news.

'This is horrible, this is horrible. I don't believe this,' the woman said before kneeling and crossing herself.

Lorich, who was a dad of three girls, was the associate director of the Orthopedic Trauma Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery, as well as the Chief of the Orthopedic Trauma Service at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

He was in the operating room when U2 front man Bono was badly injured in a cycling accident in Central Park in 2014.

The rock star lost control of his bike when he swerved to avoid another cyclist and landed on his face, fracturing his eye socket, shoulder and elbow.

Lorich performed several surgeries on the singer.

Lorich also volunteered to operate in Germany on soldiers injured in combat and led a relief effort in Haiti for 2010 earthquake victims, according to The Hospital for Special Surgery.

'He was a good doctor, and a good man. He saved and helped so many people. He gave me back my life, and my family and I are all devastated,' Matt Long, 51, who was run over by a bus said to the Daily News.

'He came to my wedding. He was part of my life...This guy did so much for me.'

'He sacrificed his whole life to help other people, and I happen to be one of them,' Long said.

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Investigators are looking into the possibility of Lorich taking his own life since there are no signs of forced entry in his apartment. Authorities have not found a suicide note so far.

Lorich lived in an Upper East Side apartment on Park Avenue with his wife and three daughters. At the time, Lorich's wife was not present inside the house. She was out playing tennis.

Although the police did not go into the details, they did reveal that Lorich was going through some kind of "personal stress" in recent times.

Update: In an odd 'coincidence', Dr. Lorich worked in Haiti where he discovered an almost non-existent medical effort backed by the Clinton Foundation:

In fact, in January of 2010, Dr. Lorich sent a detailed email to a confidant which ended up getting forwarded to Cheryl Mills who was Counselor and Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the time before being forwarded on again to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The doctor's correspondence, provided by Wikileaks, was critical of how the situation in Haiti was being handled.

"Disaster management on the ground was nonexistent," the doctor wrote. " Cheerios on the tarmac are not getting it done on these patients which clearly would be savable if good care could urgently be provided."

However, the email was only a precursor to the bombshell the doctor dropped publically just days later on Jan. 25, 2010, in a piece for CNN titled "Doctors: Haiti medical situation shameful" which detailed the conditions overseas and again the doctor took veiled shots at the Clinton Foundation.

"Once we arrived, we saw a severely damaged hospital with no running water and only limited electrical power, supplied by a generator. Surgeries were being performed in the equivalent of a large storage closet, where amputations were performed with hacksaws," the doctor wrote. "This facility could not nearly accommodate our equipment nor our expertise to treat the volume of injuries we saw."

See also:
'Fostered'? - Haiti official, expected to expose The Clinton Foundation, found dead in Miami
Another mystery Clinton acquaintance death: Close friend of Hillary planning to "step away from politics" found dead in apparent suicide
The Untold Story of Killary's Corrupt Haitian Earthquake Recovery Project