Dr. Susan Moore, MD was a 52 y/o family medicine/geriatric medicine specialist in Indianapolis, IN. Born in Jamaica, Dr. Moore grew up in Michigan, receiving her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 2002.

Dr Moore tested positive for the coronavirus on November 29 and had symptoms of a high respiratory rate, high heart rate, high fever and coughing up blood. On December 4, she was admitted to IU Health North Hospital in Carmel, Indiana where she received substandard care which she posted to Facebook and her story has gone viral.

Her accusation of the lack of care was because she was black.  I want to add a second macabre reason. But first, let’s review her story.

First, she was no stranger to the challenges of getting proper medical care.  She had sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease that attacks the lungs, was frequently treated at hospitals and nearly every time she went she reportedly had to advocate for herself just to get baseline, proper care.

In her Facebook video from the hospital with COVID, she described the uphill battle she faced in getting treatment from white doctors, specifically Dr. Eric Bannec, and nurses in the hospital.

“I had to beg to get the Remdesivir because Dr. Bannec said my chest x-ray was normal. I then had to beg for a CT of my chest.”

Her scan detected pulmonary infiltrates and inflamed lymph nodes, she said, but she continued to wait hours for pain medication. The doctor downplayed her pain, telling her that he felt uncomfortable giving her more narcotics and suggested that she would be discharged.

“Why do I have to prove that there’s something wrong with me in order for my pain to be treated?” “All I know is that I am in intense pain,” “I was crushed. The doctor made me feel like I was a drug addict, and he knew I was a physician.”

She also spoke to a patient advocate who told her nothing could be done. When she asked to be transferred to a different hospital, she was told to just go home.

“I don’t trust this hospital,” Dr. Moore said. “That is not how you treat patients.” “This is how Black people get killed, when you send them home and they don’t know how to fight for themselves.”

Dr. Moore struggled to continue advocating for herself as her condition worsened. The hospital released her on Dec. 7. Twelve hours later, barely able to walk, breathing heavily, with a temperature of 103, BP 80/60, and heart rate of 132, she was taken to a different hospital where she received better care, but the damage had been done. Her condition worsened, she was put on a ventilator, and she died Dec. 20.

Dr. Moore’s case has generated outrage over biased medical treatment of Black patients, particularly when it comes to relieving pain. This problem goes back to the beginning of the war on drugs, over 100 years ago, when drug abuse was equated to minorities. This association is still going on today, with more Blacks being arrested and imprisoned for drug use, even though more whites are involved in drug abuse. The association with drug abuse also affects how blacks are dealt with by law enforcement, with overzealous use of extreme force.

What I want to get across is that all of this could end with the knowledge that drugs are not the cause of drug abuse or addiction, and the repeal of the Controlled Substance Act.  The REAL cause of drug abuse is available, if people would just learn it. Systemic racism based on drug use could come to an end.

So what is my macabre reasoning as to what happened to Dr. Moore?  Through the 4 years of my researching attacks on doctors, I see a pattern.  Dr. Moore was an independent minority physician in an area where the hospital she was a patient in had recently taken over outpatient treatment.  In 2015, IU Health added physician offices and multiple urgent care centers.  Dr. Moore was therefore a competitor.  In my own personal case, I was targeted by the local hospital chain with collusion with the government to take me down.  My question is, with Dr. Moore, if the hospital had a vested interest in her death, and she was basically the victim of a “slow code” maneuver.  The hospital president and CEO, Dennis M. Murphy, even said he does not believe that his team failed the technical aspects of the delivery of Moore’s care. But “slow codes” are still technically accurate.

If there are any other questionable independent physician deaths in areas of high hospital-owned physician involvement, please send me the information.  In my opinion, hospitals owning physicians is not in the citizen’s best interest, and needs to end.