An LA jury finally gets one right, certainly there was no other choice on the technical merits than guilty of involuntary manslaughter and Dr. Conrad Murray will serve his four years in a county jail rather than the state prison or word on the legal street is he'll probably even get some form of house arrest and YET,
in another sense MICHAEL JACKSON is really the guilty party here and all his enablers down through the years, friends and family, everyone. People who suck you into their madness......Michael Jackson became a whining, cloying and needy creature ("give me my milk") and on balance Dr. Murray probably would not have gone with the powerful anesthetic propofol had not Michael Jackson insisted and become a baby about it Here's what I don 't get, MJ by then had already gone down as a legend in music history, he made his billions and yet these celebs have to stay in the limelight it seems, it's an obsession of theirs and so if he was just content with his monumental and phenomenal success up 'til that point so what if he couldn't sleep? What of it? he didn't have a 9-5 job or even a 7-3 like the average slob so in his life his chronic insomnia was really quite irrelevant to making ends meet so if need be screw the need to tour or whatever, your health's more important anyway. In a way Michael Jackson ruined Dr. Conrad Murray's whole life and career and as someone said to me yesterday maybe he's in his own type of hell right now. The perpetual Michael Jackson fan club is missing the Bigger Picture but they always do. I say this, if you wanna be weird be weird on your own time, don't involve the medical profession:)
Don't follow pop culture, but some
ReplyDeleteodd things stand out for me:
Dr. Murray was a cardiologist,
not an anesthesiologist. Presumably, he had some training
in anesthetics, but the propofol
set up was primitive and given
the potential dangers of the drug, its use as a sleep aid seem contraindicated.
Dr. Murray was paid $150,000 a
month, a pretty substantial retainer..did he feel obligated
beyond legitimate medical practice?
In any event, Jackson had problems
which likely would have led to OD-ing on something, were Dr. Murray not even in the picture. dunno...
Today I heard a lot of flack about people who disagreed with this verdict. Now, we can take it as given that MJ had issues that probably would have ended equally tragically with other circumstances, but it is just such appalling poor practice to even CONSIDER the idea of giving someone Diprivan in any environment outside of an ICU. I mean, you don't even use this stuff up on the floors. This is like the equivalent of doing brain surgery on my dining room table. You just don't do it. There's no way you can justify it; no matter how you look at it, you can't justify the risk.
ReplyDeleteSo I think that this is basically a case where the doctor was willing to have his ethics bought out (if he had any to start with) and do things that he had to know were completely inappropriate. And yeah, he's a cardiologist, so wtf is he doing with diprovan? I mean, other doctors will work with it; we used to use it on people who were fighting the vent and stuff. But these people are on tele and sat monitors and all that business, plus, if you're on a vent, you're going to breathe whether you want to or not.
I was just disgusted by the thought of a doctor even being willing to consider something like this and I think the verdict was appropriate.
I'm sorry I have to get to John Stossel for a minute, he who used to be on 20/20 and quit basically because he didn't like all the ABC news coverage when MJ died. Whether you hated MJ or not or simply had no opinion where in hell does Stossel get off saying it didn't deserve all the news coverage??? It was newsworthy dude, get over it. Anyway BB you did pretty good for someone not up on pop culture. Agree with you Saty and now this doctor has some interviews down saying propofol may not have been contraindicated either. He's still in some kind of denial or perhaps he thinks this is the wave of the future.
ReplyDeleteIf he thinks he can give diprovan in someone's home without telemetry and sat monitoring and life support equipment at the ready, then I think we can do a heart/lung transplant with my ceramic paring knife (which I adore) right here on my coffee table.
ReplyDeleteHe's deluded.
I saw him in an interview last night with NBC and the guy is scary. To this day he insists he did nothing wrong.
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