In a video posted earlier this month, he filmed himself from a hospital bed after an experience at IU North. Moore said his doctor relieved his symptoms, and told him, “You don’t even have shortness of breath.”
“Yes, I am,” Moore said in the video, which he shared on Facebook on December 4th.
He had to beg to get remedesivir, he said in the video, an antiviral drug used to treat patients who are hospitalized in Covid-19 and do not need mechanical ventilation.
And despite her pain, Dr. Cutter told Moore that he could send her home, she said, and it wasn’t convenient to give her more drugs.
He said in the video, “He made me feel like I was a drug addict.” “And he knew I was a therapist.”
Moore also posted updates on his Facebook page with the video.
Moore, who was an intern, said her pain was treated “adequately” only after she expressed concern about her treatment. She was later discharged from IU North, but less than 12 hours later she returned to a different hospital, she wrote on her Facebook page.
“I put forward and I Maintaining if I were white I wouldn’t have to go through that, ”Moore said.
A spokesman for IU North confirmed to CNN that Moore is a hospital patient and was eventually discharged, but declined to say more about him, citing the patient’s confidentiality.
“As an organization committed to equality in reducing racial discrimination in healthcare, we take allegations of discrimination very seriously and investigate every allegation,” the spokesperson said.
He has also demanded an external review of the case.
Racism is nothing new in healthcare
The article cites a 2016 study that found that half of White Medical students and residents “had misconceptions about internal biologic differences between black people and white people,” believing that black patients ‘pain was less intense than white patients’.
The authors of the New England Journal of the F. New England Journal stated that the acceptance of this inappropriate treatment as ‘normal’ is historically fundamental and supported by the belief that black people are internally diseased, clearly or unequivocally, high. Quality does not deserve care, “writes the authors of the New England Journal of Medicine, comparing the issue of racism in medicine to racism in policing.
The pediatric surgeon and founder of Black Doctor Covid-19, Dr. “Most physicians, who are primarily white in the United States, assume that African Americans don’t need that much for pain,” said Ella Stanford. Consortium.
Moore has left behind his 19-year-old son, Henry Muhammad, and his elderly parents, both of whom have dementia, according to GoFundMe, organized on his behalf.
According to the New York Times, Moore’s family said he was born in Jamaica and grew up in Michigan before studying engineering at Catering University. He then earned a medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School, the Times reported. The GoFundMe page describes her as someone who chose to study medicine and was proud to be a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
CNN has reached out to Moore’s family to comment further. Her son told the New York Times that he is adept at advocating for himself in hospitals, where he is often treated for sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease that affects the lungs.
“Almost every time she went to the hospital she had to defend herself, fighting for something base, shape or form, just to get the baseline, proper care.”
“This is how black people are killed,” Moore said in the video, “when you send them home and they don’t know how to fight for themselves. ”
Stanford admitted that Moore was not her patient, and did not know what the situation was at the hospital where she was being treated. But she felt the need to repeatedly advocate for Moore’s own care was “unacceptable.”
Additionally, Moore’s decision to ask for pain medication was not only to alleviate his pain, Stanford said, but would support his recovery by easing his breathing. And Moore’s request for antivirals is now part of the standard treatment for Covid-19, Stanford added.
“This is just basic,” Stanford said. “This is the standard you get. I know that by taking adequate care of people with coronavirus in the hospital and helping them through it.”
‘It’s me and we are her’
Moore first tested positive for Covid-19 on November 29, according to his Facebook post. By December, she was hospitalized north of IU in Carmel, Indiana. It happened only after a CT scan showed new lymphadenopathy – a disease in which lymph nodes are enlarged – she said the hospital agreed to treat her pain.
“You have to show proof that you did something wrong in order to take the medicine,” he said in the video.
Dr .. Stanford said the lymphadenopathy suggests that “the disease process had been going on for some time,” and Moore’s body was fighting the disease.
According to her Facebook posts, Moore was finally able to speak to the chief medical officer of IU Healthcare, who said he would make sure she received the best care possible. She also said her diversity would be trained.
December. On Monday, the hospital discharged Moore and sent him home, according to his Facebook post. But, less than 12 hours later, he was sent to a separate hospital following a drop in fever and blood pressure, according to a Facebook post. Moore said she is being treated for bacterial pneumonia and covid pneumonia. She described the care at another hospital as “very pathetic”.
The next day Moore wrote that she was being transferred to the ICU. It was the last update she shared on her Facebook page.
Her story has garnered generosity from those who have heard it, and GoFundMe has collected more than $ 100,000 by Thursday night.
Video. Alicia Sanders, another physician who first came in contact with Moore after seeing his video, helped start a page to raise funds for her family, including sending Muhammad back to school at Indiana University. Sanders said the reason she first came in contact with Moore was “gut-ranching.”
“That’s me,” said Sanders, who is also black. “It’s me and we are hers. It would have happened to one of us.”
Stanford – who told CNN she recognized the implicit bias and racism in medicine but chose to try to change things from the health care system – echoed those comments. She told CNN that when she first found out about Moore’s story, she stopped him in her tracks and brought tears to her eyes.
She shared with a group of her friends – black women surgeons across the country. They could all be related, Stanford said, experiencing the same treatment despite their skills.
“We all have stories,” he said.
“If any of us get sick, please don’t keep quiet. Stay awake, be present, be public,” Stanford wrote to Moore, adding, “She was one of us.”
CNN’s Sheena Jones and Mirna Alsharif contributed to the story.
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