Beyond medical racism: Medical malpractice and lack of professional courtesy are central.
Beyond medical racism: Medical malpractice and lack of professional courtesy are central to the death of Dr. Susan Moore
December 29, 2020
Dr. Susan Moore died of COVID-19 two weeks after documenting the substandard care she had received during an emergency visit she was discharged from, despite presenting with multiple signs, symptoms and risk factors for severe rapidly evolving COVID-19 pulmonary disease. Dr. Moore is a physician who cared for a 19-year-old son and parents who suffer from dementia.
An enormous outpouring of empathy has been generated by the fully preventable, untimely and iconic death of Dr. Susan Moore. Her death ignited a “lightning rod” of debate about well known and well documented health disparities and poor disease outcomes seen in African Americans and other minority groups.
Bola A. Akinterinwa
The importance of COVID-19 pandemic is growing as a global question and noisome problem. The growing importance is best explained by factors of international politics, racism and increasing fear of anti-COVID-19 vaccines, especially as a strategic attempt to de-populate developing countries, on the one hand, unending daily media reports on the pandemic and emergence of a second wave of COVID-19 in many countries of the world, on the other.
For instance, in a graphic analysis of media coverage of wars, in comparison to the COVID-19 saga, by The Economist, on December 19, 2020, it was made clear that COVID-19 pandemic has dominated news coverage more than any other topics since the Second World War. Before World War I, in 1914-1918, there were the 1840 Crimean War, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, the 19 July 1870-10 May 1871 Franco-Prussian War, the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War, and the Spanish-American War of 21 April 1898 to 10 December, 1898. By then, news cov
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Doctor dies of COVID after claiming she was repeatedly ignored of excruciating pain, refused painkillers this is how black people get killed, when you send them home and they don t know how to care for themselves
Dec 24, 2020 6:46 PM EST
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(ABC NEWS) Lying in a hospital bed laboring for breath despite being on oxygen, Dr. Susan Moore, a 52-year-old Black physician, stared into her cell phone and recorded a video alleging her battle with COVID-19 was made worse by the treatment she received from a doctor at a suburban Indianapolis, Indiana, hospital.
Moore died on Sunday from complications of coronavirus, her son said. She had claimed that a physician treating her repeatedly ignored her complaints that she was in excruciating pain, and wanted to send her home. That doctor, she alleged, initially told her he felt uncomfortable giving her painkillers and “made me feel like a drug addict,” she said on social media.