The African-American doctor Susan Moore became ill with coronavirus, in a video he denounced that he has to beg healthcare appropriate in a Indiana Hospital and days later he died.
“I don’t trust this hospital,” he said in the video, with an oxygen tube attached to his nose. “That’s not how patients are treated.” At the age of 52, she was hospitalized for Covid-19 Indiana University Health Hospital and died of the virus this week. Earlier this month, he posted a video on Facebook to share that he believes he is not receiving adequate medical care because he was African-American, CBS reports.
Moore was filmed from a local bed and recounted her experience. She said her doctor minimized her symptoms and said, “You don’t even miss breathing,” CNN reports.
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“Yes, yes,” Moore said in a video he shared on Facebook on December 4th. The woman had to beg for remdesivir.
She mentioned that the specialist said that he could send her home and that he did not feel comfortable offering her more medicines. “It made me feel addicted to drugs,” she said in the video. – And he knew I was a doctor.
She described the upward battle she faced receiving treatment from doctors and white nurses at the hospital, which includes ordering the antiviral drug, waiting hours for pain treatment and requesting a CT scan of her chest to prove her pain is real. CBS. After the evaluation, he said, he continued to wait for hours to receive pain medication.
At the end of several days, she was discharged, but after suffering complications, she returned to another hospital less than 12 hours later, where she died. “That’s how black people die,” she said. “When you send them home, 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, while acknowledging “that we may not have demonstrated the level of compassion and respect for which we strive to understand what is most important.” for us. patients care. “He also called for an external review of the case. A spokesman said that” we take it very seriously. allegations of discrimination and we investigated all the allegations, “CNN said.
CBS recalls that black Americans are 4.7 times more likely to be interned 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 son, Henry Muhammed, aged 19, has to face his death and the dementia of his grandparents.
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“Susan was a phenomenal doctor,” the donation organizers said in a statement. “He liked to practice medicine … he liked to help people and he didn’t apologize for that.”
The hospital reacted in a statement: “We are very sad to hear about the death of Dr. Susan Moore and our hearts are on her friends and family (…) As an organization dedicated to fairness and reducing racial disparities in care, we take the allegations very seriously. discrimination and we investigate every charge. Treatment options are often agreed and reviewed by medical experts in a variety of specialties and we maintain the commitment and expertise of our caregivers and the quality of care provided to our patients on a daily basis. “
A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine attributed the partial unequal treatment 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 patients. white.
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