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Several doctors in the United States criticized the racist treatment that a black doctor 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 new coronavirus at Indiana University North Health Hospital in Carmel, Indiana, her hometown, after she tested positive for COVID-19. at the end of November.
Lying in her hospital bed, she recorded a video on her cell phone and posted it on her Facebook page on December 4, saying her fight against the virus was made worse by the treatment she received from a doctor at that hospital.
Dr. Moore claimed that the treating doctor repeatedly ignored her complaints and wanted to send her home, saying she no longer trusted the hospital and asked to be transferred.
“This is how they kill blacks. When you send them home and they don’t know how to fight for themselves,” he said in his nearly eight-minute video.
“I had to talk to someone, maybe the media, so that people would know how they treat me in this place … I said, and I maintain, if I were white, I wouldn’t have to go through that,” he said.
After Dr. Moore died Sunday of complications from COVID-19, according to her son, several American doctors on Twitter criticized the racist treatment that blacks have been receiving across the United States during the pandemic.
“Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case,” Dr. Jeremiah Schuur, president of Brown Emergency Physicians, wrote in a tweet Thursday.
Dr. Ezinne J. Ihenachor, a radiology resident at the University of Southern California, said via social media that Dr. Moore was lost due to “medracism.”
“Black people are often ignored and openly challenged when they unconsciously (and consciously) explain their symptoms to their biased physicians,” he wrote.
Indiana University Health North Hospital, where Dr. Moore was treated, released a statement from its president and CEO, Dennis M. Murphy, on Thursday, requesting an internal and external review of the case.
“However, I am concerned that we have not demonstrated the level of compassion and respect that we strive to understand what matters most to patients. I am concerned that our care team has not had the time due to the burden of this pandemic to listen and understand patients’ concerns and questions, “he said.
“I have also heard the voices and experiences of our team members and patients of color over the past year. They have shared experiences of discrimination from patients, families and colleagues,” he added.
However, Dr. Nicole Christian Brathwaite, a child and adult psychiatrist, said via Twitter on Thursday: “Seeing some non-black doctors do cartwheels to argue that Dr. Susan Moore did not experience racism. it’s surprising, but it’s really scary. Medicine is not prepared to deal with the racism on which it was built. “
Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans are more frequently hospitalized due to the new coronavirus compared to other groups in the US, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Hospitalization rates for American Indians or Alaska Natives and non-Hispanic blacks were 4.1 and 3.9 times higher compared to non-Hispanic whites, respectively, the CDC report released Nov. 13 showed.
Hispanics or Latinos were hospitalized 4.2 times more than non-Hispanic whites, according to data between March 1 and November 7 among 70,825 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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