The African American doctor Susan Moore became ill with coronavirus, In a video he denounced that he had to pray medical care suitable in a Indiana Hospital and days later he died.
“I don’t trust this hospital,” he said in a video, with an oxygen tube connected to his nose. “That’s not how patients are treated.” At the age of 52, she was hospitalized by Covid-19 in North Indiana University Health Hospital and died from the virus this week. Earlier this month, he posted a video on Facebook to share that he believed he was not receiving proper medical care because he was African American, CBS reports.
Moore filmed herself from a bed in the place and recounted her experience. He said his doctor downplayed his symptoms and told him, “You don’t even run out of air,” CNN mentions.
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“Yeah, I need it,” Moore said in the video, which he shared on Facebook on Dec. 4. The woman had to pray to receive remdesivir.
He mentioned that the specialist said he could send her home and he did not feel comfortable giving her more medicines. “It made me feel like I was a drug addict,” she said in the video. “And he knew I was a doctor.”
She described the arduous battle she faced in receiving treatment from white doctors and nurses at the hospital, which included ordering the antiviral drug, waiting hours to receive painkillers, and demanding a computed tomography of her chest to show that the his pain was real, CBS reports. After the evaluation, he said, he continued to wait hours to receive painkillers.
At the end of several days she was discharged, but after suffering complications she returned to a different hospital less than 12 hours later, where she died. “That’s how blacks die,” she said. “When 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 the treatment Moore received, though he admitted “that we may not have shown the level of compassion and respect for what we we strive to understand what matters most to patients. ” He also called for an external review of the case. A spokesman said that “we take the allegations of discrimination and we investigate all the allegations, “he told CNN.
CBS recalls that black Americans are 4.7 times more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than whites, and three times more likely to die from the virus.
According to a page created by GoFundMe, to cover his family’s expenses, Moore’s 19-year-old son, Henry Muhammed, has to deal with his grandparents ’death and dementia.
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“Susan was a phenomenal doctor,” the donation organizers said in a statement. “He loved practicing medicine … he loved helping people and he didn’t apologize for that.”
The hospital reacted in a statement: “We are very saddened to hear about the death of Dr. Susan Moore and our hearts are with her friends and family (…) As an organization committed to equity and reducing racial disparities in health care, we take allegations of discrimination very seriously and investigate every allegation.Treatment options are often agreed upon and reviewed by medical experts in a variety of specialties, and we maintain commitment and the experience of our caregivers and the quality of care provided to our patients every day. “
A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine attributed the unequal treatment in part to “enduring 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 the pain of black patients was less severe. than that of white patients.
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