In today’s article, I’m touching some very sensitive, controversial and moral issues. So whether you agree with me or not, I’ll really appreciate your comment on this article.
As I write these words, the verdict has just come out on Conrad Murray’s guilt and I believe that’s pretty much in line with public opinion.
I believe most of us connect to Dr. Murray with feelings of betrayal. After all, doctors are supposed to be helping people, not overdosing them with dangerous medications only meant for hospital use.
It doesn’t even matter if Murray in fact injected Jackson with the overdose or if Jackson somehow did it himself, the drug should never have been there in the first place.
It’s like hiring security guard to protect your house and have him show up with a nuclear bomb for your kids to play with. The security guard was supposed to protect you, not harm you. The same goes for doctors.
The scariest thought however is that Murray’s case is so far from being isolated. Although unusually dramatic, similar things happen in thousands of doctors’ offices every day.
Doc in a box will prescribe sleeping pills or Valium to a person for years even if he knows very well that these drugs are never supposed to be used for more than a few weeks.
Not all doctors use methods described here but the fact is that most doctors receive some kind of direct or indirect payments from drug companies to push their drug. Most likely your doctor does too. You might want to shoot the question in your next visit. Legally he’s obligated to tell the truth.
The fact that many patients – like Michael Jackson - ask for or even insist on receiving addictive drugs that are only meant to use for a short period of time, doesn’t relive the responsibility from the doctor. His Hippocratic Oath is to practice medicine ethically in the best interest of the patient. That means sometimes saying NO.
Some of Murray’s attorneys’ reasoning was that Jackson was determined to get this drug and if Murray hadn’t given it to him, someone else would. This is the same reasoning street pushers give when selling illegal drugs to kids.
In fact, I feel the street pushers have more ethics than the doc in a box because they’ve never given an oath to be anything else than pushers who deliberately turn people into junkies. And they’re not betraying anyone’s trust. They’re open about their intentions.
We’re all responsible for our own health and own actions. Sometimes, however, we need to put our trust in professionals. Part of that is to trust that they’ll put aside their own greed and agenda and say NO if we ask for something that’s not good for us.
Dr. Murray betrayed that trust when “attending to” Michael Jackson.
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Christian Goodman
Looking beyond this example of medical crime it all only makes sense when you look at the big picture. Doctors are in cahoots with the largest organised crime syndicate the world has ever know. GSK has just been fine 3Billion$ for hiding the fact that one of its diabetic drugs was killing tens of thousands of victims. Not one famous singer but thousands of fathers, brother sisters grandparents etc. Where is the media on this, where are the TV crews outside the head office of this drug company? Where are the public demonstrations calling for the jailing of the guilty parties to this corporate murder?
Is this an isolated case? No! It is happening year after year for the past 50 years. How can these criminals stay in business and still pay these fines. They simply bribe doctors to deliver more drugs that do not work.
While organised crime is allowed to have a virtually monopoly over our health and bribe politicians, doctors and influence the media (by buying adverting time), then nothing will change.
RobertRedfern
The doctor knew better and that speaks for itself the doctors oath is: “First do no harm”. Somehow this all got lost here. My daughter was hung up on Oxycondin a doctor gave her for pain. The doctor never explained that the drug was very addictive. She spent several years getting off the drug and made it. The patients trust the doctors and the doctors screw them over. We the people better wise up. The doctors are simply legal drug lord’s. Most of the doctors make money pushing their drugs simple as that,
It seems that the doctor was in an impossible situation. There will always be doctors who will be willing to prescribe to stars. No-one questioned the doctors who did so for Elvis. His doctor said Elvis could always get the drugs. So it seems could Jackson who self harmed with drastic plastic surgery and drugged himself upwith what proved to be lethal cocktails of them.
The man was a drug addict. His demise from that affliction was just a matter of time
why do so many people feel sorry about mecheal jackson , he was nothing more then a drug addtic and ped-file !
I’M SICK TO DEATH OF THIS MICHAEL JACKSON THING! HOW MANY MORE YEARS IS THE NEWS MEDIA AND COMMENTATORS GOING TO RAG ON AND ON ABOUT THIS. IT’S GETITNG MONOTONOUS AND BORING. IT HAPPENED—NOW GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!
my daughter has chronic from back and chiari malformation surgery. her doctor has kicked her out of the pain mgt program with a months prescription giving no thought to the withdrawal (she had the surgery 1-1/2 years ago so the withdrawal will be pretty brutal). you would think they would have the obligation to her of off the oxycondon and morphone and see her through the withdrawal but noooooo. “deal with it” they said. so much for the Hippocratic oath! I don’t care if MJ was an addict, he was a human being and his doctor should have tended to him accordingly. Addiction is an illness and these are not throw away humans.The addiction should be treated.
Quit blaming Dr. Murray for the death of someone who has been addicted for years and has the power(because of his celebrity status and money) to get what he wants one way or another.
jack trever jr says:
November 12, 2011 at 10:09 am
Has it ever occurred that perhaps there is more to Michael jacksons death than meets the blogging publics eyes, lets take in to consideration his billionaire status,
his celebrity status, his , alleged child molestation legal status, his decision to invest his fortune in a foreign land rather than in The US of A, why he was pissed.
He was silently getting back at the Legal system for branding him a could be child molester,
A brand that at age 50 does not pardoned very easily no matter how many top celebrity connections he may have had.
Also he now had a criminal record that will linger until the end of the day the US government is dismantled.
Why would he invest any of his hard earned millions in such a place, he was not a stupid man, nor was he ignorant he was fast, thinking, quick to the draw but he was hurting,
emotionally, and physically…he was also tired of the false friends that kept crawling up the flag pole and saddened to see the good ones die of illness or old age.
All this was taking a toll on his life force.
He felt like a candle been burned at both ends, but he was determined to allocate his millions else where than US territory, there are and where those in certain agencies that did not see this from a kindly view and felt this may present a tread as money transfers
lend for other activities, and Michael was notified that it would be to his best interest
not to relocate large funds in the hands of other Principalities but Michael was determined.
So what about the doctor, well the doctor fits in like a perfect jig saw puzzle,
and so does the lone man theory.
They are now pulling “the lone man theory”. Yeah, just like Timothy McVeigh.
Dig up Michaels planned investments, the secret ones, not the public ones.
Who inherits his estate? How much goes to Uncle Sam? How much is listed as non recoverable? How much is listed as undetermined losses? May the force be with you at this one because public figure assassinations are a fine tuned art of the establishment.
Michael Jackson’s addiction is what killed him.Had that doctor not been there another would have. Michael Jackson made the choice and his choice killed him. All over our world people are making similar choices. Having been through the off and on addictions of a son that I love, I have taken classes to learn about inabling and I have learned that there is One Power in the Universe that can help addicts and those who love the addicts.Ultimately, each of us are responsible for the choicees we make and enabling a loved one only prolongs the issue.I intend to remember Michael Jackson as the beautiful spirit that gave us the song,We Are The World, that song gives us a clearer picture of the the soul of a man we lost to drugs. drugs.
M J WAS TRYING TO REFORM AND THE BIG WIGS SORTED HIM OUT. THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME