Black Woman Doctor Who Complained About Not Getting Proper Treatment At Hospital Dies Of COVID

The US currently has the highest number of fatalities from COVID-19 anywhere in the world and among Americans, Blacks, and Hispanics have a much higher mortality rate when compared to their white counterparts.

There have been several allegations that minorities including Blacks and Latinos are not given adequate treatment by hospitals, leading to a high number of deaths.

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This seems to be true, even if you are a doctor but is black. At least that is what Susan Moore, a physician from Indianapolis had to experience in her final days when she was being treated from COVID-19.

Dr. Moore who had tested positive for COVID-19 on November 29 had alleged that her white doctor was dismissing her complaints of pain and the hospital staff was in a rush to discharge her.

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Dr. Moore, who was admitted at the Indiana University Hospital North had posted a video to Facebook alleging that she believed she was not receiving proper medical care because she was Black.

In the video, Dr. Moore said her symptoms included a high respiratory rate, high heart rate, high fever and coughing up blood. She also narrated her battle to get 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.

Dr. Susan Moore died today from COVID, but HOW she died is unacceptable. She posted a video to Facebook from an Indiana hospital days before her death about mistreatment. "This is how black people get killed when you send them home and they don't know how to fight for themselves" https://t.co/iSF8rs7qmI pic.twitter.com/3a8qE6DhN3

¡ª Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) December 22, 2020

"All I know is that I am in intense pain. The doctor made me feel like I was a drug addict, and he knew I was a physician," she had said in the video.

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"This is how Black people get killed. When you send them home and they don't know how to fight for themselves," she said in the video, adding that "I put forward and I maintain, if I was White, I wouldn't have to go through that," Moore said. "And [the doctor] never came back and apologized."

Dr. Moore died this week after being discharged from the hospital and getting admitted to another hospital due to a spike in her symptoms.

Following the death of the 52-year-old, the Indiana University Health System, which operates the hospital said it would implement "new anti-racism, anti-bias and civility training for all team members."