Dr. Susan Moore dies from coronavirus after saying hospital was mistreating her because she is Black

Indiana doctor Dr. Susan Moore has died from complications of the novel coronavirus weeks after saying she was being mistreated.

What happened to Dr. Susan Moore?

Dr. Moore was admitted to the Indiana University North Hospital. She maintained she was not receiving proper treatment in a Facebook video on December 4 that has since gone viral.

She alleged horrible encounters with medical staff

Moore said that despite telling the doctor that she was in pain, the medical staff treating her wanted to discharge her. She said that she only received medication after tests proved what she had been saying since she arrived at the hospital.

“I put forth, and I maintain, if I was white, I wouldn’t have to go through that,” Moore said in her video after explaining that her doctor only agreed to give her pain medication after a CT scan revealed new pulmonary infiltrates. “And that man never came back and apologized,” she added of her doctor.

“I don’t trust this hospital, and I’m asking to be transferred. These people wanted to send me home with new pulmonary infiltrates and all kind of lymphadenopathy in my neck,” Moore said, adding later in the video, “This is how Black people get killed. When you send them home and they don’t know how to fight for themselves. I have to talk to somebody, maybe the media, somebody, to let people know how I’m being treated up in this place.”

In a later update, Moore said on Facebook that she spoke with the Indiana University Health system’s chief medical officer, who told her the team was finally managing her pain properly.

She said that the CMO “stated that there will be some diversity training” and that they were “working on” getting an apology from her doctor.

Dr. Susan Moore finally gets care

Moore was discharged and shared that she was at home in her own bed, before sharing yet another update that she had been admitted to a new hospital.

“I was home for less than 12 hours,” Moore wrote on Facebook. “Spiked a temperature of 103 and my blood pressure plummeted to 80/60 with a heart rate of 132. I’m back in the hospital, a different hospital Saint Vincent Carmel.

“Those people were trying to kill me,” she added. “Clearly everyone has to agree they discharge me way too soon. They are now treating me for a bacterial pneumonia as well as Covid pneumonia. I am getting very compassionate care. They are offering me pain medicine.”

Moore’s latest update would be her final. She stated she was being transferred to the ICU and was on a BiPAP machine to assist her breathing.

GoFundMe campaign set up

Unfortunately, she passed away.

A GoFundMe campaign has been set up for Moore’s family for funeral costs and expenses. She leaves behind a 19-year-old son and her parents.

“Dr. Susan Moore, a physician residing in Indianapolis, experienced an untimely death,” the GoFundMe campaign said. “She had been fighting COVID for the past few weeks. She leaves a son who is 19 yrs old and her parents, both of which have dementia. The son is dealing with both situations at this time and is in good spirits.”