{"id":1294,"date":"2020-12-30T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2021-01-21T23:07:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T23:07:28","slug":"black-doctor-dies-of-covid-19-after-complaining-about-racism-at-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/black-doctor-dies-of-covid-19-after-complaining-about-racism-at-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Doctor Dies of COVID-19 After Complaining About Racism at Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indianapolis, IN<\/strong> \u2014 Susan Moore, an African American doctor from Indiana, died due to complications from COVID-19 just two weeks after claiming that a white doctor ignored her complaints and requests for medication. In a video she posted on Facebook<\/a>, she expressed that she wouldn\u2019t have experienced such mistreatment if she weren\u2019t Black.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Moore recorded herself from a hospital bed while sharing her experience at Indiana University Health North Hospital. She said her doctor dismissed her complaints of shortness of breath.<\/p>\n

She also said she requested to receive Remdesivir, the antiviral drug used to treat patients with COVID-19. But the doctor said he didn\u2019t feel comfortable giving her more narcotics and \u201che made me feel like I was a drug addict,\u201d she said in the video.<\/p>\n

Moore, who was an internist, said the doctor even\u00a0tried to release her from the hospital at 10 pm despite her having pulmonary infiltration. She was later discharged from IU North Hospital but was again taken to a different hospital less than 12 hours after, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how Black people get killed,\u201d Moore said in the video, \u201cwhen you send them home and they don\u2019t know how to fight for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Moore\u2019s untimely death, she leaves behind her elderly parents and 19-year old son, Henry Muhammed. A GoFundMe<\/a> was set up on behalf of them to assist her family with their immediate needs. It has so far raised more than $170,000.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a spokesman for IU North Hospital confirmed that Moore was a patient at the hospital and that she was eventually discharged but did not comment further, citing patient privacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an organization committed to equity and reducing racial disparities in healthcare, we take accusations of discrimination very seriously and investigate every allegation,\u201d the spokesman said, according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indianapolis, IN \u2014 Susan Moore, an African American doctor from Indiana, died due to complications from COVID-19 just two weeks after claiming that a white doctor ignored her complaints and requests for medication. In a video she posted on Facebook, she expressed that she wouldn\u2019t have experienced such mistreatment if she weren\u2019t Black. Earlier this Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,40,1],"tags":[416,418,419,415,417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}