The African American Doctor Susan Moore fell ill with the corona virus, in a video he denounced that he had to beg medical attention sufficient in one Indiana hospital and days later he died.
“I don’t trust this hospital,” he said on video, with an oxygen hose attached to his nose. “This is not how patients are treated.” 52 years old, she was hospitalized for Covid-19 in the United States Indiana University Health North Hospital and died of the virus this week. Earlier this month, he posted a video to Facebook to share that he believed he was not receiving adequate medical care because he was African American, CBS reports.
Moore filmed herself from a local bed and shared her experiences. She said her doctor downplayed her symptoms, saying, “You’re not even short of breath,” CNN reports.
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“Yes, I do,” said Moore in the video, which he shared on Facebook on December 4. The woman had to beg for remdesivir.
He said the specialist said he could send her home and he was uncomfortable giving her more medication. “It made me feel like a drug addict,” she said in the video. “And he knew I was a doctor.”
She described the grueling struggles she faced while being treated by white doctors and nurses in the hospital, including ordering the antiviral drug, waiting hours for painkillers, and requiring a CT scan of her chest to prove that her pain was real, CBS indicates. After the evaluation, he said, he waited hours to get painkillers.
After several days she was discharged, but after complications, she returned to another hospital less than 12 hours later, where she died. “This is how black people die,” she said. “If you send them home and they don’t know how to fight for themselves.”
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Dennis M. Murphy, president and CEO of Indiana University Health, defended the technical aspects of Moore’s treatment, admitting “we may not have shown the level of compassion and respect we strive to understand what matters most to us. It’s important to patients. ”He also called for an external review of the case. A spokesperson said: “We take it very seriously allegations of discrimination and we have investigated all allegations, ”said CNN.
CBS recalls that black Americans are 4.7 times more likely hospitalized with Covid-19 than whites, and three times more likely to die from the virus.
According to a page created on GoFundMe, in order to cover his family’s expenses, Moore’s 19-year-old son, Henry Muhammed, has to face his death and his grandparents’ dementia.
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“Susan was a phenomenal doctor,” the organizers of the donation said in a statement. “He loved to practice medicine … he loved to help people and he made no apologies.”
The hospital responded in a statement: “We are very sad to hear about the death of Dr. Susan Moore and our hearts go out to her friends and family (…) As an organization committed to equality and reducing Inequalities in health care, we take allegations of discrimination very seriously and investigate every allegation. Treatment options are often agreed and reviewed by medical experts from a variety of specialties, and we maintain the commitment and expertise of our healthcare providers and the quality of care that each day is offered to our patients. “
A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine attributed the inequality in part to “persistent racist cultural beliefs and practices.” The text cited another 2016 study that found that half of white medical students and residents had “unfounded beliefs about the intrinsic biological differences between blacks and whites,” falsely believing that black patients’ pain was less severe than that. of white patients.
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