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bear responsibility. Apparently, Jackson kept demanding these drugs, all the while having to have at least some idea of how dangerous they were. And the doctor(s) shouldn't have gone along with it, either, just because it's something a celebrity wanted; in fact, the doctor(s) bears more responsibility precisely because he damn well knew better, and knew that, professionally, he had no business dispensing these drugs, and yet said nothing and continued to comply with Jackson's demands.
I remember reading an article once on research regarding physicians and celebrities (and celebrities meaning the famous of all kinds, whether artists, writers, scientists, musicians, as well as actors and "pop stars"). It was interesting in that it showed that celebrities often do not get the treatment they really need or aren't professionally treated in the way that they should be medically and mentally precisely because of their celebrity. Doctors and other medical/mental personnel are reluctant to "go against them" or tell them what they really need to hear instead of what they want to hear and are often far too eager to comply with what the celebrities want due to both fear of what the person could do to them if they didn't go along with the celebrity and a professional version of being "star-struck." This first started to be discussed in regards to Hemingway, who was released far too early from the psychiatric ward during needed treatment because the doctors were too afraid to tell him he wasn't yet ready to leave and wanted to "please" him. It all makes a lot of sense to me, and I think that's what went on here in Jackson's caes.
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