Black Doctor Dies of Covid-19 Complications Weeks After Complaining About Hospital's Racist Treatment

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The New York Times reports that Dr. Susan Moore, a Black doctor, was refused adequate care and gaslighted about her pain from her white male doctor while admitted at the Indiana University North Hospital. In a now viral video posted to Facebook, Moore shared her experience, documenting her positive coronavirus diagnosis on November 29, untimely discharge, and her eventual return back to the hospital. She noted that she had to beg her physician to treat her with the antiviral drug remdesivir as well as a CT scan of her neck and chest due to all the pain she was feeling. The doctor however, initially declined to do both and instead questioned Moore’s symptoms and suggested she should be discharged instead. The doctor would eventually oblige but only after medical tests revealed Moore did indeed have new pulmonary infiltrates in her lungs that warranted necessary and immediate attention.

“I put forth, and I maintain, if I was white, I wouldn’t have to go through that,” Moore said in her video. “I don’t trust this hospital, and I’m asking to be transferred. These people wanted to send me home with new pulmonary infiltrates and all kinds of lymphadenopathy in my neck. This is how Black people get killed. When you send them home and they don’t know how to fight for themselves. I have to talk to somebody, maybe the media, somebody, to let people know how I’m being treated up in this place.”

A Black Doctor Dies of Coronavirus Complications Just Weeks After Complaining About Hospital's Racist Treatment | The Root

An Indiana doctor has died from COVID-19 complications just weeks after reporting racial mistreatment on behalf of the hospital.The New York Times reports

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[XsjadoBlayde]

This is the worst thing with the whole pandemic, that systemic inequality has shown exactly how fucking nasty even an unbiased virus can be for those society has routinely tried to ignore at best, all the while people still bloody deny even that exists! Makes me so angry and disappointed with people: how much hope is there for progress when they can be so toe-curlingly selfish, misled and manipulated to serve the worst of us all. If it was a little white girl dying to systemic neglect though, oh boy...then we'd fucking know about it.

 

[ObsidianJones]

A family member is going to give Birth in March.

And she's frightened out of her mind. She's in an area where C-sections and Episiotomy are shockingly high, especially for women of color. And the reviews of the hospital she is near express that over and over. That the Obstetrician never listens. When she called, she got the same treatment. She's not only worried about giving birth in a hospital at the time of Covid, but she's worried about her health as not only do American women die more than any other female group in a developed country, but black women die at a rate three times higher.

This is all to say, I'm not surprised. I'm not even shocked. But this was at least recorded.

However, I'm sure they will blame Covid-fatigue for her death.

 

[Worgen]

A family member is going to give Birth in March.

And she's frightened out of her mind. She's in an area where C-sections and Episiotomy are shockingly high, especially for women of color. And the reviews of the hospital she is near express that over and over. That the Obstetrician never listens. When she called, she got the same treatment. She's not only worried about giving birth in a hospital at the time of Covid, but she's worried about her health as not only do American women die more than any other female group in a developed country, but black women die at a rate three times higher.

This is all to say, I'm not surprised. I'm not even shocked. But this was at least recorded.

However, I'm sure they will blame Covid-fatigue for her death.

You might want to tell her to bring a white friend since apparently that can help with this sort of thing. Even better if its a guy because we live in the stupidest timeline.

 

[Houseman]

“I put forth, and I maintain, if I was white, I wouldn’t have to go through that,”

Why did she think that? Did she have evidence that white people got different treatment for the same symptoms?
Or did she just enjoy being the victim who blames everything on racism, and now activist journalists are doing the same?

I'm an optimist, I find it hard to just believe assertions of malice.

 

[Cheetodust]

I'm an optimist, I find it hard to just believe assertions of malice.

... You're existence is genuinely hilarious to me.

 

[Worgen]

Why did she think that? Did she have evidence that white people got different treatment for the same symptoms?
Or did she just enjoy being the victim who blames everything on racism, and now activist journalists are doing the same?

I'm an optimist, I find it hard to just believe assertions of malice.

Well, according to the CDC just in childbirth, black women with a college degree are 5.2 times more likely to suffer from pregnancy related death then their white counter parts. If we encounter these disparities just in childbirth which is something we tend to be really good at handling, then you can imagine how these disparities are with general care.

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[Houseman]

Well, according to the CDC just in childbirth, black women with a college degree are 5.2 times more likely to suffer from pregnancy related death then their white counter parts. If we encounter these disparities just in childbirth which is something we tend to be really good at handling, then you can imagine how these disparities are with general care.

Why are black women with college degrees more likely to die in this manner? Racism? Home births? Some actual biological difference? There just being a disparity doesn't say much of anything on its own, nor should we be drawing hasty conclusions from it.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm an optimist, I find it hard to just believe assertions of malice.

Didn't you just spend your Christmas (and also the past 50 days) banging on about how the US elections were totally stolen despite having 0 evidence to that effect?

 

[Houseman]

Didn't you just spend your Christmas (and also the past 50 days) banging on about how the US elections were totally stolen despite having 0 evidence to that effect?

No, you must be confusing me with someone else. I have evidence, you see.

 

[SupahEwok]

No, you must be confusing me with someone else. I have evidence, you see.

I'd blame you for being a troll, but to be fair to you, the rest of this board enables you.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

No, you must be confusing me with someone else. I have evidence, you see.

I mean I saw a lot of assertions of malice, but I find it hard to just believe them.

 

[Houseman]

I mean I saw a lot of assertions of malice, but I find it hard to just believe them.

Good, so we understand each-other. I, like you, find it hard to believe this Doctor's assertion of malice.

 

[Cheetodust]

I'd blame you for being a troll, but to be fair to you, the rest of this board enables you.

Most of this board. Leave me out.

 

[Houseman]

I'd blame you for being a troll, but to be fair to you, the rest of this board enables you.

The rest of the board doesn't hold on to petty grudges from years ago, and knows how to attack the argument instead of the person. You might learn a thing or two from them.

 

[Revnak]

The rest of the board doesn't hold on to petty grudges from years ago, and knows how to attack the argument instead of the person. You might learn a thing or two from them.

I feel like you’ve dramatically misunderstood the sentiments of people on this board.

 

[Baffle]

Apropos of nothing, the way this forum handles muted/blocked people is really good. Unless someone quotes a muted person it's literally like they don't exist.

 

[ObsidianJones]

I'd blame you for being a troll, but to be fair to you, the rest of this board enables you.

I had to "Show ignored content" to even know what you were talking about. Apparently he talks to me a lot still. Have no idea why.

 

[Shadyside]

The rest of the board doesn't hold on to petty grudges from years ago, and knows how to attack the argument instead of the person. You might learn a thing or two from them.

LOL you really don't know anything about this site. People here love to hold grudges over petty things.

 

[Trunkage]

I'd blame you for being a troll, but to be fair to you, the rest of this board enables you.

What specifically do you want us to do about it?