Current Events > Another case of a doctor's racism costing black life

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-doctor-dies-coronavirus-reporting-185700902.html

Dr. Susan Moore, 52, died Dec. 20 following multiple hospitalizations for complications from COVID-19, first at IU Health North and later at Ascencion-St. Vincent in Carmel, Indiana.

Her frustrations with the care provided at IU Health were chronicled on Facebook in multiple updates. The first came Dec. 4 when she said delays in her treatment and diagnosis were motivated by the color of her skin.
In a 7-minute video posted to her Facebook page, Moore described frustrating back-and-forths with a white hospitalist with the IU Health system.
She described having her complaints of severe neck pain disregarded, despite drawing from her years of medical expertise to make a self-assessment.

"I was crushed," a tearful Moore said of the doctor's refusal to provide her pain medication. "He made me feel like I was a drug addict. And he knew I was a physician. I don't take narcotics. I was hurting."

It's well known that doctors and nurses make black patients wait longer for care, take them less seriously and do everything possible to deny them pain medication because of ingrained racist stereotypes. This woman who is a doctor herself died recently after shitty care and being sent home way too soon.

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RIP.

and yea, I remember reading something about how health care professionals are likelier to disregard a black person's claims of pain/suffering than anything anyone else's, and the ramifications that can have.

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Fony posted...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-doctor-dies-coronavirus-reporting-185700902.html

It's well known that doctors and nurses make black patients wait longer for care, take them less seriously and do everything possible to deny them pain medication because of ingrained racist stereotypes. This woman who is a doctor herself died recently after shitty care and being sent home way too soon.

https://youtu.be/ZLe0sa8TlYI

Black doctors and patients are speaking of their experiences here

This kind of thing happened to me. I used to have a chronic cough. I had a primary care physician I had been going to here and there. I told him about my cough and he just shrugged his shoulders and ignored it.

I stopped going to him because of that. Fortunately I ended up buying an air purifier years later and that stopped it.

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Carmel is rich and racist as fuck. This is not surprising in the least.

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