Dr. Susan Moore, a 52-year-old Black woman whose self-shot video from an Indiana hospital has spread far and wide after her death, attended Michigan universities and practiced medicine in Grand Rapids in the past.
Moore died of complications from COVID-19 on Dec. 20, less than three weeks after her Dec. 4 Facebook video in which she complained inadequate hospital care colored by racism, the New York Times reports.
The story linked Moore’s experience to widespread claims of systemic racism in health care that have contributed to disproportionately high numbers of coronavirus deaths among Black patients across the nation.
Race has been a central issue throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Black Americans are 1.4 times as likely to contract the coronavirus, 3.7 times more likely to be hospitalized and 2.8 times more likely to die, according to CDC data tracked nationwide through Nov. 20.
In Michigan, Black residents are more than twice as likely to die of COVID-19 than white residents. They accounted for nearly a quarter of Michigan’s total coronavirus deaths while representing less than 14% of the state’s population.
Moore’s video focuses on a doctor’s unwillingness to give Moore pain medication and remdesivir, despite her pleas, and claims that she was nearly released from the hospital with undiagnosed lung complications.
Moore obtained her medical degree from the University of Michigan in 2002, a UM spokesperson confirmed.
“Michigan Medicine extends condolences to the family of Dr. Moore,” said UM’s Mary Masson.
She also studied engineering at Kettering University in Flint, according to the Times report.
She had an active medical licenses in Carmel, Indiana at the time of her death, online records show.
Since her death, an online fundraiser was launched to support her son, an on-hiatus Indiana University student now taking care of Moore’s elderly parents, who suffer from dementia and live in Indianapolis, according to the GoFundMe page. Moore previously cared for them, says the description of the online fundraiser that had raised nearly $100,000 as of Thursday afternoon.
Moore’s son told the New York Times his mother suffered from sarcoidosis, a disease that attacks the lungs, for which Moore was frequently hospitalized.
Moore’s Dec. 4 Facebook post indicates she tested positive for the coronavirus Nov. 29 and was admitted to an Indiana University Health hospital in Carmel, Indiana.
After receiving two injected doses of remdesivir, a medication sometimes used to treat coronavirus patients, Moore said her Indiana University Health doctor denied her more, stating, “you’re not even short of breath ... you should just go home right now.”
In addition to denying remdesivir, Moore, who speaks with labored breath at a punctuated pace with tubes in her nose during the video, said she was also denied narcotics.
“I was in so much pain from my neck. My neck hurts so bad,” Moore said in the video. “I was crushed. He made me feel like I was a drug addict, and he knew I was a physician.
She requested to be sent to another hospital that would treat her “properly.”
After speaking with a patient advocate, medical staff performed a scan of her neck and discovered some congestion in her lungs, Moore said.
“Next thing I know, I’m getting a phone call saying what can we get for your pain,” Moore posted on Facebook. “Why do I have to prove that there’s something wrong with me in order for my pain to be treated.”
Moore in the video said: “I put forth and maintain, if I was white, I wouldn’t have to go through that.”
Moore requested morphine and said she was prescribed Percocet, a less powerful opioid, and waited more than 2 hours for the medicine.
“This is how Black people get killed,” she said, “when you send them home and they don’t know how to fight for themselves.
“He didn’t want the Black doctor to have no medicine, nothing ... Being Black up in here, this is what happens.”
Moore’s son, Henry Muhammed, told the New York Times his mother was released from the IU Health hospital on Dec. 7. Her health began to decline rapidly while Moore was at home and she was then transported by ambulance to Ascension St. Vincent Hospital in Carmel, Indiana.
Three days later, Moore’s son told the New York Times his mother was placed on a respirator and her health began to deteriorate until her heart stopped on Dec. 20.
MLive requested information or comment and was awaiting response from Indiana University Health, Ascension St. Vincent, Kettering University and UM.
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