Medical team learned about coronavirus on the fly
FREE NEWSLETTERS Dr. Caitriona Buckley said nothing in her career prepared her for the stress the pandemic brought her and her colleagues. (IBJ photo/Mickey Shuey)
By the time COVID-19 patients get to Dr. Caitriona Buckley, they are often gasping for breath and multiple organs are failing.
Her job, as pulmonologist in the intensive care unit of Indiana University Health’s University Hospital, is to keep patients alive even as their systems try to shut down.
In normal times, it’s a stressful job. But for the past year, with hundreds of patients arriving in the ICU every month, it’s sometimes been overwhelming.
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âHe made me feel like a drug addict,â Dr. Susan Moore, 52, said on a video days before her death on December 22, 2020 due to coronavirus. The Black Indiana doctor states on a Facebook video that she had received poor treatment from White caregivers because she was African American. Her message reached over a million people on social media as of December 24, 2020.
âThis is how Black people get killed, when you send them home and they donât know how to fight for themselves,â Dr. Moore said on the video. Moore asserted that her doctor attempted to discharge her at ten at night.
Black Physician Dies of COVID-19 After Complaining of Alleged Mistreatment
Dr. Susan Moore is no stranger to the racial disparities heightened by the ongoing pandemic. According to the CDC, black people are nearly three times more likely to die of COVID-19 than their white counterparts due to a range of genetic and environmental factors.
After seeking treatment at a hospital in Indiana, Dr. Moore shared a video on Facebook alleging she was being denied care because of the color of her skin. Just a short while later, she died of COVID-19.
Racism in medicine didn’t begin with COVID-19 and it will likely remain after the pandemic goes away. Dr. Moore’s story is a reminder of how far the healthcare industry still has to go in terms of making sure all Americans can get the care they need.
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