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   INDIANAPOLIS – A Black doctor who died of COVID-19 after weeks   
   of battling the virus said she was mistreated and delayed proper   
   care at an Indiana hospital because of her race.   
      
   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 ½-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."   
      
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   She said she had to plead with and convince her physician she   
   was having trouble breathing before receiving a CT scan. When   
   the scan revealed that what she was saying was true, she was   
   given medication to manage her pain. But only after hours of   
   waiting.   
      
   “I put forth and I maintain," she said in the video, "if I was   
   white, I wouldn’t have to go through that.”   
      
   'Clearly everyone has to agree they (discharged) me way too soon'   
   From her hospital bed, Moore, who is remembered as someone who   
   loved helping others, said she was speaking out so that the   
   treatment she endured would not be overlooked.   
      
   “This is how Black people get killed, when you send them home   
   and they don’t know how to fight for themselves,” she said into   
   the camera. “I had to talk to somebody, maybe the media,   
   somebody, to let people know how I’m being treated up in this   
   place.”   
      
   After being sent home, Moore was back in a hospital bed within   
   12 hours, according to her Facebook updates. This time she was   
   being treated at Ascencion-St. Vincent in Carmel, and was   
   experiencing better care.   
      
   Shortly after being discharged from IU Health on Dec. 7, Moore   
   said she experienced a spike in temperature and a drop in her   
   blood pressure.   
      
   "Those people were trying to kill me. Clearly everyone has to   
   agree they (discharged) me way too soon," she wrote of IU Health   
   before giving an assessment of her care at Ascencion-St.   
   Vincent. "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."   
      
   Citing patient privacy, an IU Health spokesperson declined to   
   speak specifically to the case, but shared a written statement   
   on behalf of IU Health North:   
      
   “As an organization committed to equity and reducing racial   
   disparities in healthcare, we take accusations of discrimination   
   very seriously and investigate every allegation," the statement   
   reads. "Treatment options are often agreed upon and reviewed by   
   medical experts from a variety of specialties, and we stand by   
   the commitment and expertise of our caregivers and the quality   
   of care delivered to our patients every day.”   
      
   IndyStar, part of the USA TODAY Network, is reaching out for   
   comment from the doctor that tended to Moore.   
      
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   Despite the change in care, Moore's condition continued to   
   deteriorate. She died in the hospital three weeks after her Nov.   
   29 diagnosis.   
      
   Moore's experience and tragic death sparked outrage and sadness   
   across social media. Many pointed to it as the latest example of   
   racism and discrimination in health care, as well as the   
   disproportionate toll COVID-19 has has taken among Black   
   patients.   
      
   It also led to an outpouring of support for the loved ones she   
   leaves behind.   
      
   Moore is survived by her 19-year-old son and recent high school   
   graduate, Henry Muhammed. In an interview with the New York   
   Times, Henry said his mother was still thinking of others to the   
   very end.   
      
   During their last conversation, Moore said she was going to help   
   her son go to college.   
      
   Moore's family told the New York Times that she was Born in   
   Jamaica but grew up in Michigan. She studied engineering at   
   Kettering University and earned her medical degree from the   
      
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