Black Doctor Dies From Coronavirus After Saying Hospital Was Mistreating Her Because She Is Black
Earlier this month, Dr. Susan posted a video to Facebook to share that she believed she was not receiving proper medical care because she was Black. Moore, an Indianapolis physician was initially being treated for COVID-19 at Indiana University Hospital North.
“I don’t trust this hospital,” Dr. Susan Moore said from her hospital bed in Indiana with an oxygen tube hooked up to her nose. “That is not how you treat patients.” Moore tested positive for the coronavirus on November 29 and said she faced obstacles in getting treatment from White doctors and nurses in the hospital, including begging for the antiviral drug Remdesivir, waiting hours for pain medication, and demanding a CT scan of her chest to prove her pain was real. It eventually detected pulmonary infiltrates and inflamed lymph nodes, she said, but she continued to wait hours for pain medication. “All I know is that I am in intense pain,” Moore said in the heartbreaking video, adding that the doctor downplayed her pain. “[The doctor] made me feel like I was a drug addict, and he knew I was a physician.”
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She said she spoke to a patient advocate, who she says told her nothing could be done. She then asked to be transferred to a different hospital but was told that she should just go home. “This is how Black people get killed,” Moore said. “When you send them home and they don’t know how to fight for themselves,” CBS quotes. After being sent home, just less than 12 hours later, she caught a fever and her blood pressure plummeted, so she returned to the hospital, according to her Facebook updates. “Those people were trying to kill me. Clearly, everyone has to agree they discharge me way too soon,” she wrote. “They are now treating me for a bacterial pneumonia as well as Covid pneumonia.” Sadly, Moore died this week after being admitted to another hospital.
She was 52-years-old.
A rep for Indiana University Health told TMZ that the hospital could not comment on individual patients or care because of privacy law. It adds, “As an organization committed to equity and reducing racial disparities in healthcare, we take accusations of discrimination very seriously and investigate every allegation.” The rep continued, “Treatment options are often agreed upon and reviewed by medical experts from a variety of specialties, and we stand by the commitment and expertise of our caregivers and the quality of care delivered to our patients every day.”
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