Racist doctors refuse to treat a black woman properly, leading to her death from COVID-19. BTW, she was a doctor herself and yet those caring for her didn’t listen to her, obviously because of her skin color. It’s not kneeling on a man’s neck, but it is a death directly attributable to racism nonetheless. And Trump made it MORE acceptable to be racist, not less.
“He made me feel like a drug addict,” Dr. Susan Moore said, accusing a white doctor of downplaying her complaints of pain and suggesting she should be discharged.
www.nytimes.com
@SuperMatt thanks for the article.
it was a devastingly heartbreaking article to read.
systemic racism, and, in a lot of instances,
gender bias and socio-economic class prejudice, within the health care delivery system.
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Dr. Moore tested positive for the coronavirus on Nov. 29 and was admitted to the hospital, according to her Facebook post, which she wrote on Dec. 4.
She wrote that she had to
beg the physician treating her to give her remdesivir, an antiviral drug some doctors use to treat Covid-19.
Dr. Moore said she received a scan of her neck and lungs
after her doctor denied she was short of breath, despite her telling him she was, and after he told her he could not justify giving her more narcotic painkillers. The scan detected problems — pulmonary infiltrates and new lymphadenopathy, she said — and so she began receiving more opioid pain medication.
But she said she was left in pain for hours before a nurse gave her the dose.
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This is how Black people get killed, when you send them home and they don’t know how to fight for themselves,” Dr. Moore said.
Dr. Moore’s experience highlighted what many Black professionals said they regularly encountered. Education cannot protect them from mistreatment, they say, whether in a hospital or other settings.
Born in Jamaica, Dr. Moore grew up in Michigan. She studied engineering at Kettering University in Flint, Mich., according to her family, and earned her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School.
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thanks for the article.
we do our part to remember her here.