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A hospital is owning up to its wrongdoing but claiming it had nothing to do with the death of a Black doctor who was suffering from COVID-19.
Dr. Susan Moore was admitted to the Indiana University Health North Hospital in Carmel, Indiana, on Nov. 29 after testing positive for COVID. Within days of her hospitalization, Moore complained about the doctors not listening to her pleas to receive Remdesivir, an antiviral drug that has been used to treat COVID-19,
Atlanta Black Star reports.
At the time, Moore said the white physician bypassed her comments of being in pain and even threatened to discharge her. “I was crushed,” she said in a Facebook video. “He made me feel like I was a drug addict.”
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Black female physician claimed white doctor giving her treatment repeatedly ignored complaints, wanted to send her home. A number of doctors in the US criticized the racist treatment a Black female physician received in a hospital, who later died due to complications from COVID-19.
Dr. Susan Moore, a 52-year-old Black physician, was being treated for the novel coronavirus at Indiana University Health North Hospital in Carmel, Indiana, her hometown, after she tested positive for COVID-19 in late November.
Lying on her hospital bed, she recorded a video on her cell phone and posted it on her Facebook page on Dec. 4, saying her fight against the virus was made worse by the treatment she received from a doctor in that hospital.