My answer is YES. What about you?
Do you think Dr. Conrad Murray is guilty of killing Michael Jackson?
by Iamallcool 15 Replies latest jw friends
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WTWizard
Was he only doing as his boss told him to? Did Michael Jackson keep hounding him to prescribe those drugs?
Personally, I think the pharmaceutical industry is responsible. Whatever Jackson was taking those drugs for, could have been prevented or cured using natural remedies (he didn't have some terminal illness placing him in lots of pain at the time--they were just sleeping pills). Without the FDA banning anything other than a drug being used to cure or prevent "diseases", safer remedies could have been effectively used. Herbs, amino acids (including tryptophan), forms of magnesium, and the B vitamins could have been used to help with the "sleeping problem". At the very least, someone should have tested him to ensure adequate status on all these nutrients before using drugs, or used them along with smaller, safer doses of the drugs.
And this goes true with so many others. Prescription drug use (not abuse, not accidental misuse, proper use) kills more Americans than most other conditions. Only heart disease and cancer, or maybe strokes, kill more per year--depending on which sources you use, between 100,000 and 850,000 Americans die each year from proper use of prescription drugs (and not choking deaths). And the fact that doctors don't know anything beyond drugs is the drug industry's fault. When drugs fail, they only know how to do one thing--prescribe more drugs. This is as true when your cholesterol "won't go down enough" or your blood pressure remains "too high" after a single drug is prescribed because you didn't address the real cause as it was when Jackson's pain wasn't manageable with a single prescription. So, the doctors are only trained to do one thing--prescribe more drugs. Were they to prescribe natural remedies, or at least a natural remedy to go along with a drug, many of these deaths would be avoided.
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finallysomepride
Probably guilty of stupidity only
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darthfader
I beleive that the doctor was negligent -- he was of course responsible for the health care of his client - even though his client was a powerful superstar.
So I have to vote yes for "negligint homicide".
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thetrueone
He is guilty of involuntary manslaughter due to his actions of taking care of MJ's health.
Most likely due to all of the medications that he had given prior to administering Propofol, weakened MJ's
heart pulse rate and pressure. When the Propofol was given it actually stopped his heart shortly after and totally unbeknown when Murray was
out of the room. Who knows how long he was out the bedroom before he returned and saw something was wrong.
The evidence is stacked against him so I think he will be convicted.
Murray's greed for money and the pressure and influence of keeping him on this particular money train in the end was his
undoing, now he's going to pay for it dearly for the rest of his life.
In case people aren't aware, his specialty in the medical field is cardiology, a heart specialist.
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minimus
I think he's guilty of something.
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blond-moment
Drug dealers on the street, or drug dealers with an MD behind their name, they are the same. I think the laws should be tougher on docs who are drug dealers.
Michael Jackson was a drug addict, he didn't deny that. His doctors were his suppliers, they are trying to deny that. Throw the book at him.
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Mary
This is Elvis all over again. Both Elvis and MJ obviously had some serious psychological and emotional issues, both were junkies and both died from an overdose of drugs prescribed by their doctors. While we are all ultimately responsible for our own lives, I believe that when a doctor is blatantly prescribing very dangerous drugs to an individual (when it clearly isn't necessary), that doctor is also responsible for their actions, especially when it kills one of their patients.
As a warning to other doctors who prefer to see $$$ instead of the "do no harm" oath that they took, this asshole needs to be stripped of his medical license and thrown into jail for a couple of years. I believe "Dr. Nick" (Elvis' doctor) was charged with something after Elvis died, but I can't remember what exactly. If more doctors were held accountable, it might make others stop and think before they hand out drugs like candy.