“Say Her Name: Dr. Susan Moore.” Black Female Doctors Condemn Racial Disparities in Healthcare 

The doctor who failed to treat Dr. Moore should be stripped of his lisence to practice medicine.

*I’m left entirely speechless...* 😳 *This woman still had so much good to do for others and now she’s gone because of a racist fool? REVOLTING!* 😡

As a 65 yr old Woman who is a Native American I totally agree. The medical field needs to be challenged, exposed and held accountable. We now, we complain, we show the statistics but we just get pushed away because the system protects its own.

My condolences to her. This an issue that needs more light. Hospitals have been getting away with murder for a long time.

The “system” will always be untrustworthy.

They caused her to suffer unnecesarly

Exactly why I changed physicians. My previous doctor basically blamed the Hydroxy (current drug problem) on Blacks. Then he got upset when I gave him the national statistics proving that Whites were thw abusers of that drug and their doctors were the suppliers.

America has nothing to be proud about. The doctor who treated her needs to be prosecuted. The whole education system needs to be reviewed as racism is taught.

We need our own HOSPITALS AND DOCTORS! PERIOD!

I'm having a problem trying to find a Black doctor. White doctors do not touch me. Everything these ladies are saying are so true. At 68 I think I deserve better.

You have to do a video To show the injustice in a hospital system. My heart goes out to her family. May she rest in peace.

I’m black and work in healthcare and still won’t take it!

This is absolutely outrageous. This must be changed.

We’re so numb. This isn’t new, it’s what mainstream media and society has ignored for as long as we have been complaining

These people are just plain evil, with one breath, they say “ Oh Were All Humans” and these same people will treat you total opposite. ALL

I feel as for her son.

What about a wrongful death suit.

Dreadful, I can’t believe such a thing would--- that white doctor be treated likewise -- I am disgusted. Not examination!!!!! Shame on him. NAME HIM too. Maureen Brophy

I remember in late 2019 my aunt was at hilcrest medical center in ICU. We were told that there wasn't anything that they could do for her. Her heart was operating at 3%. Miraculously when she woke up from a coma, and was able to talk she told us that she was put in the hallway for hours on a gurnee where she screamed in pain about her chest and head. She was afraid to be left alone. This is the same hospital that told us my mom was sleeping well, yet called the family in from the waiting room and told us that my mom had a aneurysm . She died less than a day later. It's a non stop cycle.

Did that doctor and nurse get fired. I hope her family is suing the hospital, doctor and nurse.

Black or white, they devalued her pain! Disgraceful, I worked pain medicine 15 yrs. They had to prove it! So unfortunate. No compassion, no kindness.

I filed a complaint against a white doctor who kept laughing at me when I complained about having a low grade fever for almost a year. When I switched to another doctor she had me go to a rheumatologist. I may have a borderline autoimmune issue. And filed a complaint against another white receptionist who didn't wear her mask when I arrived. And again when I saw a white nurse in the hallway not wearing a mask. Fight back, don't stay silent!

Protect, care & respect black women!!!

And we suppose to pay attention to what these so called professionals have to say, please. The trust of many, shall wax cold!!! The Most High shall prevail!!!

That's exactly how they treat you like you're an addict. Even with confirmed diagnosis in hand they don't want to ease your pain and treat you like that it's very disturbing.

Amy, I don't know how you can do this day after day, but you are very brave. Please keep putting the message out there. 👍❤️

This is so sad. Tears 😭😭 What is wrong with nurses and Drs They killed her. OMG

We must always protest, our voice must be heard, keep the fight for Justice, and ask God to be before us, thank you for your leadership Dr. Perry

As a woman, not a black woman, doctors don't listen to me either!

SAY HER NAME: DR SUSAN MOORE!!! RIP & POWER DR SUSAN MOORE

I'm being told by politically incorrect people that they're here to replace me,I'm not special.Everybody &everything is special not believing lies.Dr.Susan Moore say her name ❤.

*Say her name.* Rest in power.

This has been the norm for years. Read HARRIETTE A. WASHINGTON BOOKS SHE MAKE IT PLAIN. Condolences to her FAMILY!

I will only say his name. JESUS I TRUST IN YOU. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON HER SOUL.

Genocide

This happens to all poor people. The ACA has an invisible line where help stops. That’s a fact, I have and am living it. The idea that poc are treated worse than I have been treated makes me sick.

Seems like doctors need to wear cameras so their prejudices can be monitored.

My eyes are wide open now. And it is a painful, tragic truth exposed. I feel helpless in the face of so much injustice. This country must get back to protecting all the people. Thank you DN!

Name the attending doctor to Dr Susan Moore ........ May she rest in peace, leaving too early mb

A tragedy. I am so sorry for her and her family. Justice is called for

How many doctors actually heed the Hippocratic Oath: "Do No Harm".?

This is heartbreaking I’m white I just can’t believe how black people are treated in America disgusting shame on America

no vaccine for me!

"If I were white, I wouldn't have to go through that". Not quite exactly. If you were a white doctor who was known to have provided quality care to minority patients in a white supremacist zone, say Fargo, ND, or Mpls, MN, that is exactly what you would have gone through, hospitalized either in South Carolina while visiting a sick relative there or back in Mpls fighting for your life from what should have been a simple cellulitis that was floridly mismanaged by the South Carolina medical staff. I am a doctor. I was targeted by a hate group starting when I became the specialist doc for a child whose father happened to look like President Obama. (No relation most likely. Lots of people look alike.) The community's racist hatred for President Obama carried over to hatred for an innocent handicapped little African American child whose father happened to look like the President. And from there, the hatred was directed to that child's white doctor providing appropriate care for the child and family, as I had provided to every patient I saw, according to my Hippocratic and Baptismal Oaths. I began to be targeted by a hate group when I became that child's doctor. During this period following my being the doctor for this particular child, I was nearly killed when, while visiting a sick relative in South Carolina, I became inexplicably ill with a dangerous and fast moving skin cellulitis that put me into the hospital there for a week. After a week of bad care in a hospital in South Carolina, where they misidentified the germ as gram negative when it was clearly strep, a medstudent level mistake, and as the staff in South Carolina were treating me as if I were some kind of criminal when I was actually a doctor visiting a relative who had just been diagnosed with cancer, I reached out to friends from my church in Minnesota who were retired military. They would understand a life threatening situation when told about it. After I called them, terrified for my life and with no skin on my legs from the infection and the bad medical care that had taken the skin off both legs from ankle to knee, these friends took action. They got on the phone to the hospital in South Carolina, told the hospital staff that I was on the Altar Guild at church so that the nursing staff would stop treating me like some juvenile drug-addicted delinquent criminal, got me discharged even though there was no skin on my legs and I had to care for my own bandages, told me to "build a nest" for myself for one night in a hotel in South Carolina until I could get a flight back to Minnesota, and referred me to a hospital in Minneapolis where I could be seen by one of their medical colleagues who was, himself, a former medical military officer, now in civilian practice. In Minnesota the next day, I checked in to a hospital there to be treated for the dangerous cellulitis that had taken the skin off both legs, from ankle to knee, developing suddenly, while visiting family in South Carolina. However, the retired military doc was not on service for my first few days in the hospital in Minneapolis. Instead I got treated by some Russian emigre doctoretta who had perhaps half my age and a quarter of my skills. Though the antibiotics given me in Minneapolis were more effective than the incorrect ones chosen in South Carolina, the nursing staff deliberately "blew" my IV with every infusion. I was having at least three to four IV's a day, and each time required a half dozen "sticks" to start a new working IV. By the time my church friends' former military colleague was back on service at the hospital and got to see me as his patient, I had been there for several days/ Though I was not complaining about how the nurses just happened to "blow" my IV several times a day, necessitating resticking my arms and even my legs, at least twenty times a day in an effort to get a working IV, I was starting to feel nauseous, slightly queasy, and to lose my appetite, inexplicably. When the former military doc returned to service and sized up the situation, he palpated my abdomen and his face changed. He said, "Her infection is clear. Her daily fevers to 104 are because she's allergic to one of the antibiotic drugs you're giving her three times a day. Stop all IV's. Give her 2 days of oral amoxicillin, and send her home. The skin on her legs can regrow at home." What he didn't say out loud to the hospital staff but had ascertained was true, was that, having, in effect, been subjected to torture several times a day in the form of repeated needlesticks in the repeated daily attempts to restart the deliberately ruined IV that the nurses ruined on purpose each time they pretended to flush it, I was developing a syndrome he'd seen before in POW's. Captured soldiers and others in captivity can, at times, develop micro-perforations of the gut induced by unrelenting physical stress that included torture. This causes a peritonitis that kills them, thus freeing them in death from facing further torture. This had been happening to me without my knowing it nor any staff being aware of it. However, had the situation continued, in another day or two, I would have been dying of fully blown peritonitis caused by the nurses' deliberate torture treatment in the form of twenty to forty needle sticks a day, caused by their deliberately failed attempts to secure a working IV. (Nobody is that bad at flushing IV's unless they mean to be ruining them several times a day.) The 2 days of oral amox prescribed by this former military specialist doctor before I was to be discharged, were to allow the gut perfs to heal before sending me home. This assault on my life in the form of deliberately bad nursing and medical care (until the arrival of the former military doctor on service who was known to my friends at church) happened because I had become known in the community for providing good care to minority patients. The hate campaign continued, with slander, car crashes, home invasions, job loss via slander, and all sorts of rumors spread about me that were floridly untrue, for years after my slow recovery from that seemingly spontaneous skin infection. The attacks and slander and terror, in my home and whenever I go out shopping, continue to this day, occurring most recently...two days ago when I went out to get groceries. I continue to try to restore my career and reputation in the face of ongoing attacks from this domestic hate and terror group that seems specifically to target women doctors, and to target any doctor who saves minority lives. I did at one point attempt to phone Democracy Now to tell them about this situation when I was being actively stalked in Boston in 2017 , but did not get through to anyone to make a useful connection. How long has this been going on in my life? The African American child with the dad who happened to look like President Obama became my patient in 2012. The domestic terror started soon after and continues to this day, along with every kind of slander you can imagine, car crashes, home invasions, professional slander and blackballing, and the minions of the hate group following me to assault me chemically whenever I leave the house to go shopping. My lawyer has only partially succeeded in clearing the hate group's slanderfilth from my professional record. As it happens, I have always lead a squeaky clean life in every regard, like many women who become teachers and doctors: no cigarettes, no alcohol, never used a drug, conventional lifestyle, conventional friends, active in my church, committed to my work as a doctor and to keeping my Baptismal Oath as a Christian to reject evil, including racism, with God's help. So, no, it's probably not entirely because Dr. Susan Moore was Black that she was targeted. I'm as white as it gets, and I was targeted similarly and am lucky to be alive. It's likely also because, as a doctor, Dr. Moore DARED to Save Black Lives, DARED to do her job, DARED to keep her oaths, both as a doctor and as an adult member of whatever religion she practiced to serve good and reject evil, rejecting the evils of racism and illness with God's help (as we say in my church).. A minor, yet significant difference: Dr. Moore was likely specifically targeted for her works as a doctor, as well as for her identity. Having only narrowly survived a similar situation some years ago, narrowly surviving with my life through the intervention of a doctor with the knowledge and skill to recognize that I was about to be killed and to discharge me in time to save my life (and having had my career devastated to this day by the same hate group's slander on purpose and on paper, beginning with that episode of their successful assault on both my health and my career,) I believe it was likely Dr. Moore's Effectiveness at saving lives and her Works for Good that got her targeted by a hate group to receive bad care on purpose and be killed, not merely the color of her skin. The battle lines are, sadly, all too clear, as Pastor Robert Lowell pointed out in his nineteenth century hymn, Once to Every Man and Nation. I believe it was likely the content of Dr. Moore's good character as revealed by her outstanding good works as a doctor that sealed her fate with the hate group types on that hospital staff, in addition to the color of her skin. Summary: The racist hate groups don't merely target Black people. In addition, they specifically are targeting DOCTORS known to save Black lives. This is not sporadic. It is a trend. It would help me and my colleagues if you could look into the situation further, because I know of not one but several doctors who have been so targeted by hate groups.

I would've went to another hospital after they released me. This is sad..

This so devastating when I first heard DR MOORE speaking from her hospital bed I was in shock!!! A fellow dr and nurse treated so badly I cried. FIRST DO NO HARM JUSTICE FOR DOCTOR MOORE! REST IN PEACE THEY SHOULD BE PERSECUTED!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been treated the same way as Serena Williams by the US medical system yet I know my body better than any medical provider. I am so glad Serena survived that horror. She is so strrong, intelligent and beautiful. I have fired several ignorant physicians in my life, and for this reason, have high standards for anyone I allow to partner with me in promoting my health.

People forget how James Brown, Mr. Dynamite & Soul Brother #1, died. He went to the dentist and got a tooth pulled. Unlike most dental patients, over the age of 75, who are given preventative or prophylactic antibiotics, James Brown was given nothing, and got an infection afterward and died from it. But James Brown was really killed by his negligent bigoted dentist. I guess he didn't like James Brown's lyrics, "Let's fight together / Let's be together / America."

Its ashame that I have almost died twice and yet no one offered me any help to get over the trauma is sad

I remember when I had a gallstones & the pain was so intense & went to the hospital. They made me wait 4 -6 hrs without meds until they looked at my ultrasound to prove I had real pain. No one in healthcare believes you have pain until its proven as a fact. This is an extremely sad situation & I am saddened to hear she went through such horrible care.

That's what happen to my friends 21 year old daughter. She went to the ER in extreme pain and difficult breathing. They didn't even see her thinking she was lying. She died in the ER from a pulmonary embolism. She was black, just married.

During the delivery of my son in a Philadelphia hospital. The anesthesialogist was angry that my OBGYN called him to provide pain meds to me. He yelled at me saying that he had patients dying downstairs. At that moment I knew

This very hard to listen to. WOW.

Rip Dr. You are a great soul💐🩺🌍🌹🎆🌻🥀🌹🌹⭐💯⛑️💡🌎💘😇💪👍💫🖤✝️🇺🇸.

The oaths of strangers. When I questioned a white doctor about giving my 85 year old grandma a hysterectomy, that doctor became indignant at my questions. I had to assure him that my grandmother is loved and protected by me, that I have the rights to question him and be assured. I told him as God as my witness you will not be alone while operating on her body because she has been promised a long life. He then smiles and walk away. Several years ago, after grandma stayed in the hospital a week, they sent her home to die saying she only has a month or so. My son and I seemed to be the only family around her that didn't believe the doctors diagnosis. We knew she wasn't going to die. Sure enough we have celebrated her 100 year BIRTHDAY...

Sooooo the “medical assessment” that a doctor can expect to receive (let alone anyone who is not one) goes no further than what Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing has diagnosed: a pattern of thought, speech, actions, emotional responses based on the medically-trained perception of melanin in the skin.

May she Rest In Peace. But we can’t be at peace.

Even white friends of black people are treated with disrespect. My brother, white, befriends several black people and helped a woman get to a hospital about 1.5 yrs ago, because of severe leg pain. She died suddenly and the white Dr came in and he looked at my brother and said "What did you give her?", assuming any one befriending blacks must be an addict as well as the black person (?) or what?. He was aghast! It was a blood clot!

It's by the grace of god that I've reached the age of 62. I have many stories of neglect at the hands of the medical community, for me & my children... most times I had to figure out what was wrong with me & beg the doctor to look into it to get relief.

I keep you in my prayers Dr Susan Moore

My heart goes out to her family may you rest in Heaven Dr. Susan Moore

RIP Dr. Susan Moore 🕊🕊🕊

Very sad imagine giving your service expecting to be treated better but then again as a Doctor to receive that type of care is so inhuman, sad indeed 😭

Utterly shameful. I'm a white woman suffering chronic pain and the inhumane treatment i have endured has been beyond torture but watching Dr Moore's suffering at the hands of mostly white, male Doctors has shocked even me and at this point I truly thought I was beyond shock. May God bless Dr Moore.

From Europe: we always knew, that America wasn't that democratic paradise, that Americans like to call their country. "The greatest democracy in the World!" The Corona crysis and Trumps so called presidency shows the World what USA really is. But thank God there also are people like you and many like you who make us hopeful - thank you and your friends - don't give up! Stay healthy!

It always breaks my heart to see how EVIL this system IS!

Racism is endemic throughout the medical establishment, I as well as people that I've met that had experienced excruciating pain and has been treated as if they were there to get a "fix", and/or that they are exaggerating their pain, also if they are there for other medical problems, black people are rarily given the benefit of the doubt and their treatment, correspondingly is inept, and we die because of it.

I wish this video would miraculously go viral! America needs to understand and learn this. Thank you all at DN especially Amy Goodman.

Serena Williams, you got a wake up call! Good for you!

AMY, thank for unbiased reports - please continue to do this - someone has to... God bless you and all you hold dear!

I had just given birth by cesarean section Feb 13, 1966 needing blood work when two nurses commented that Black people had tough skin b/c they couldn’t find my vein.

THANK GOD FOR THESE WOMEN!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

At least! They should fire the doctor who turned her out.

Great episode,thank you. I pray for Dr. Susan Moore' Soul,& Her Family. Also those Medical Technician Who TRULY Strive to 'DO THE RIGHT THING'.

Serena Williams, is highly visible. This happens, all the time!!

I’m in Ireland and I’m black I’ve been having large bilateral effusion, neck pain , chest pain, my heart is skipping beats, I had a dvt, confusion foggy brain , unable to focus, cramp in my legs, numbness in my left arm, pain in my left shoulder but the doctors just keep telling me to go home too... it’s just ridiculous

Every patient is an expert in their own body! Preach!

I remember when I had my second baby after my c section there was this nurse who was so mean to me accused me of ringing my bell for help all the time I was in so much pain I wanted the catheter removed because they had told me it would be removed at 9:00am it was 1pm and I wanted to it out so she came along and just yanked it out in anger I was so shocked don't know why I never reported her but will never forget her face 😭😭

Why Do Our Face Have A Race The Care That We Get Should Be The Same Shame On America Shame On You... 🖤

Im mixed race and i have back pain so severe i can't walk or stand longer then about 5 minutes and so far the doctors have done nothing.... This is just the tip of the iceberg...

Thank you Drs for your expertise and grace in explaining yet again what we all know happens and is still happening institutional racism.

What actions are going to be taken against these physicians and nurses for the treatment of this woman?

Wow! What a powerful interview.

I'm speechless. I almost died in the care of doctors several times. My complaints we're unanswered and no attorney would fight for me. Thank God this woman was an actual black doctor that has testified to such actions, revealing the heartless world of Physicians. My condolences to her Family.

I also experienced subpar care. I recieved shots without alcohol wipes, lab work taken early morning hours results recieved 7PM with high potassium levels. Transferred from rehab to emergency hospital where it was crowded. When I refused admission I was not allowed back to rehab even though due to be released the next day. I stayed in hospital lobby till 9AM when a friend picked me up.

So heartbreaking💔

They was also mad because most black women voted for President Joe Biden 👍

"Intimidated" from racists about Black people means do not question them, or appear to know more than them, whether it be for medical issues, financial issues, educational issues... This is how they operate. Being "intimidated" is a personal issue, and is not justification to mistreating a patient or client, as a professional rendering a service.

Dr Susan Moore 's sonn need to sue the hospital and the doctors and nurses that was involved in her care

Sad

Condolences to her family and strength and love to her son... may God cover him and may her soul rest in peace... it's hurtful.

As a person with a disability, this is TOO DAMN often that people are treated like this. I grew up being told children like me don't feel pain. Had procedures done without medication, without anesthesia. Been denied care entirely, or questioned until blue in the face, OR given pain meds just to get rid of me. There's rarely a middle ground, and when I find it, I hold onto it White-knuckle for as long as I can, because our lives are in these people's hands.... and too often it's taken for granted, and people don't know "what to do with us" and we are tossed aside, ignored, or left in pain. It's a deadly game, and while it is too often imparted upon people of color, ANYONE seen as "less than" is a consequence of that education passed down from older Gen doctors to impressionable young staff who dare not speak up, so we die from it.

This is a medical apartheid.

That's exactly why I'm punk I don't trust the system never have never will that's why I find alternative place to live..

I came out of an Associate's Degree program in 2002. My instructors were stellar. They always taught us to LISTEN to your patients. You have the expertise to get them what they need but they know their bodies best. They live in them daily. Not us.

Can't the family sue the hospital and these doctors who failed to do their jobs! This is outrageous, made even more glaring that she was, herself a doctor! And if they treat a doctor like this, how would they treat a non doctor! No one should question pain? Pain is pain! This is disgusting!

Dr. Jones my point exactly.❤️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

They need to give Serena Williams part of her money back since she did the major part of their work while she was in the hospital!

This is why we have to focus on Africa. America or Europe will never treat blacks well.

Dr. Moore, I really believe that you were being treated like that because you asked for pain medication. I live with chronic pain and your words are my life. I am sick of the medical community. I hear your words and I believe you.