Doctor who died of COVID-19 after complaining of poor treatment had Michigan ties
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
A screengrab from a video posted to Dr. Susan Moore s Facebook page Dec. 4, complaining of poor hospital treatment for COVID-19. She died Dec. 20.
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Dr. Susan Moore, a 52-year-old Black woman whose self-shot video from an Indiana hospital has spread far and wide after her death, attended Michigan universities and practiced medicine in Grand Rapids in the past.
Moore died of complications from COVID-19 on Dec. 20, less than three weeks after her Dec. 4 Facebook video in which she complained inadequate hospital care colored by racism, the New York Times reports.
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Lying in a hospital bed with an oxygen tube hugging her nostrils, the Black patient gazed into her smartphone and, with a strained voice, complained of an experience all too common among Black people in America.
Susan Moore, the patient, said the white doctor at the hospital in suburban Indianapolis where she was being treated for Covid-19 had downplayed her complaints of pain. He told her that he felt uncomfortable giving her more narcotics, she said, and suggested that she would be discharged.
“I was crushed,” she said in a video posted to Facebook. “He made me feel like I was a drug addict.”
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