ID racism identified during care of black doctor who died of COVID
An external review has concluded that racial bias and a lack of empathy and compassion existed in the care of Susan Moore, M.D., a black physician who died of COVID-19 at Indiana University (IU) Health Hospital in December 2020.
Commentary
This event was shocking in that it concluded that a black doctor, Susan Moore, M.D., had symptoms caused by COVID-19 and that there was prejudice and lack of empathy and compassion in her treatment. As the author confirmed, Dr. Moore begged for Lemdesivir and a chest CT, and requested painkillers for his neck pain, which were resisted, and then he was treated by a new respiratory physician. He was treated by a new respiratory therapist. He was discharged from the hospital after what appeared to be a temporary improvement with a drug called "dexamethasone," but 12 hours later his symptoms worsened and he was readmitted to another hospital where he was treated in the ICU but died in December 2020.
The story was described on Facebook under Dr. Moore's name, so if you are interested in the story, please take a look.
I felt bad when I thought about how bad the situation was, being resisted the treatment I wanted and having to change to a different doctor without being satisfied.The author is also a medical professional in Japan, and it occurred to me that discrimination in treatment may be happening in places where we are not aware of it. We don't hear about this kind of thing in Japanese news reports, but we do hear about ambulances being overwhelmed because of the increasing number of infected people. Although this is not the situation that happened this time, the patients in the ambulances may be feeling the same way.
There have been reports of burnout among doctors and nurses due to the pandemic, but would this change if these measures were taken? I was faced with a difficult question.
