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rsmith6621 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:04 PM
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They Should Charge Michael Jackson With Conspiracy....


.........to murder himself....Sorry folk to bring this up again but what happened to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.....he was a willing victim and had to know what some of the risk were...my GOD using drugs that only hospitals use to put you to sleep before you go under the knife...


.....And YES the Doctor should notr escape justice if found guilty...


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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:08 PM
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1. It's one thing
to abuse drugs that you administer to yourself. Quite another to die from using a drug which is impossble to administer to oneself. MJ may have had an affinity for the drug but he could not have taken or abused it without assistance. The good doctor needs to be held responsible for his deeds. Obviously he choose to violate his "do no harm" oath in order to receive some significant $$$$$. And obviously he didn't quite assess the risks of doing so accurately. No pity for him here.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:12 PM
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3. I was going to address the issue from the law's point of view but you did a fine job with that
even if you didn't realize it.

There is no evidence that MJ had the desire to or attempted to kill himself--that's the legal rub. And it's there for a reason.

The "good doctor" was negligent, unethical, and practicing outside his licensed bounds. He needs to be brought to justice or others will shortly follow suit.
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jannyk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:12 PM
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2. Yep, more like long term 'assisted suicide'...
..the doc was only hired to feed MJ's drug habit. I'm sure if he had refused his master he would have been instantly replaced with a more complicit 'MD'.

Is the doc guilty of murder? Probably not - it's not like he snuck up on MJ and attacked him with a syringe. Manslaughter, probably yes. He was just a drug pusher that MJ kept on retainer to support his outrageous habits.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:13 PM
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4. I think both Jackson and the doctor(s) were culpable and
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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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:29 PM
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5. Cigarettes are slow suicide too...
Would the doctor have complied if Jackson begged for a frontal lobotomy?

The doctor was the "professional" in this scenario... he's responsible.
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