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Black physician’s Covid-19 death demonstrates bias of U.S. health care system, peers say – NBC News
Dr. Susan Moore, 52, of Indianapolis said she tested positive for Covid-19 on Nov. 29 and was hospitalized at Indiana University Health North. She died Dec. 20.
The Covid-19 death this month of a Black physician who said she had to beg for proper medical care and was prematurely discharged from a hospital underscores the bias that Black people, particularly Black women, face in the U.S. health care system, numerous physicians and others said, expressing outrage.
The woman, Dr. Susan Moore, 52, of Indianapolis, said she tested positive for Covid-19 on Nov. 29 and was hospitalized at Indiana University Health North. She documented her tumultuous stay in a…
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